Reach out to people: Naveen to Collectors

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday  inaugurated the two-day Collectors’Conference at the Lok Seva Bhawan in the capital city. Inaugurating the conference in a virtual mode, the Chief Minister welcomed  the Collectors to the two-day conference and expressed hope that the  interaction would reset and re-invigorate the efforts of the government to  maximize the visibility of its transformative initiatives. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik asked the Collectors to reach out to  more and more people, find out their issues of concern, and use technology to
sort them out in a faster, simple and hassle-free manner. “I would like to see all our development projects implemented in the shortest
possible time and our welfare initiatives reach all the legitimate beneficiaries. There should be a competition among districts for the realisation of goals, and  set benchmarks for others,” said the Chief Minister. Naveen said that Odisha has been at the forefront of many states for its
transformative initiatives, including sports, healthcare, school transformation,  women’s empowerment, skill development, crop production, and Covid  management. “The 5T Initiative and ‘Mo Sarkar’ initiatives have brought  about transformative governance and have enhanced our people’s outreach  programmes. At the district level, Collectors and district administrations are  required to reach out to more and more people, find out issues of concern, and  use technology to sort out them in a faster and simple, hassle-free manner,” he  added. Talking about the achievements of his government, the Chief Minister said,  “As you know, we are now a food surplus state contributing to the national  public distribution system. I would like to highlight that the  agriculture and allied sectors provide maximum employment  to people in rural areas,” adding, “We should focus more on
farm mechanization, crop diversification, horticulture and  floriculture, dairy development and fisheries. Our ‘Millet  Mission’ has now been taken up nationally to improve  nutrition. This sector has the potential to revitalize the rural  economy. We need to continue to excel in this sector.” The Chief Minister said that start-ups play a vital role in the  economic development of the state. A lot in this regard has  been done by the government. The O-hub is in operation as  one of the big incubation centres for start-ups. We are trying to  make Odisha one of the top three start-up destinations in the
country. He emphasised, “Women empowerment is at the core of all  our initiatives. We intend to transform our Mission Shakti  groups into small and medium enterprises. We are providing  interest-free loans up to Rs 5 lakh so that they can convert  their units to flourishing units. “ “We have a target to provide Rs 50,000 crore to our Mission  Shakti Groups in the next five years. Collectors are required  to provide all possible support to Mission Shakti Groups in  the realisation of this objective,” the Chief Minister pointed  out. Spelling out his government’s priorities, the Chief Minister  said, “Other flagship programmes like Biju Swasthya Kalyan  Yojana, school transformation, tourism promotion and sports  also require your special attention.” Concluding his address, he said, “Let’s work together towards  a new Odisha an empowered Odisha.” The Chief Minister highly appreciated the Mission Shakti  Industrial Park conceived and implemented by the Koraput  district administration saying that this will be adopted by the  entire state.

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