These Odisha IAS Officers Are Secretary-In-Charge Of 10 Aspirational Districts

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Friday appointed 10 senior IAS officers as Secretary-In-Charge of 10 aspirational districts in the state.

The in-charge officers of these districts are

Dhenkanal: PK Mohapatra

Rayagada: Anu Garg

Koraput: Dr. Sourabh Garg

Kalahandi: D.R.K Singh

Kandhamal: Sanjeeb Chopra

Nabarangpur: Hemanta Sharma

Nuapada: Saswat Mishra

Gajapati: S K SIngh

Balangir: Pramod Kumar Meherda

Malkangiri: V V Yadav

The officers have been assigned the task to closely follow up on the 49 indicators across 5 Sectors, – Health & Nutrition, Education, Agriculture & Water Resources, Financial Inclusion & Skill up-gradation and Basic infrastructures like irrigation, rural electrification, potable drinking water and access to toilets in these districts.

Last year, two districts of Odisha – Nuapada and Koraput – figured in the list of five that championed development narrative in fundamental parameters of social progress as per the Second Delta Ranking of the Aspirational Districts Programme released by NITI Aayog.