Bhubaneswar: As many as 15 new projects worth around Rs 3210 crore were sanctioned from Odisha Mineral Bearing Areas Development Corporation (OMBADC) funds at a high-level meeting here on Thursday.
Reviewing the progress of ongoing projects at the meeting held on digital mode, Oversight Authority of OMBADC Justice AK Patnaik expressed his satisfaction and said the projects proposed by different departments are “well planned with appropriate objectives”.
Stating that the feedback about the quality of the projects received from different quarters was “quite good”, Justice Patnaik appreciated the efforts of the state team in encountering the COVID-19 pandemic and restarting the economic activities at a fast rate.
Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy directed the collectors to expedite ground level implementation of the projects by maximum utilisation of the technical and engineering capacity already created at district level through OMBADC.
Collectors of Sundargarh, Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar district appraised that the district OMBADC cells had started functioning in their districts.
Following projects were approved at the meeting:
Chief Executive Officer Uma Nadnduri presented the updates about the projects. Development Commissioner Suresh Chandra Mohapatra, Additional Chief Secretary Forest & Environment Dr Mona Sharma, Additional Chief Secretary Health and Family Welfare Pradeepta Kumar Mohapatra, Additional Chief Secretary and Agriculture Production Commissioner Raj Kumar Sharma, CEO OMBADC Uma Nanduri, OSD to Oversight Authority SK Naimuddin, Advocate General Odisha and members of the Board of Directors participated in the deliberations.
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