Hard work can ensure benefits of central schemes: Rebia

Our Correspondent

Itanagar, July 6: Arunachal Pradesh Women and Child Development Minister Nabam Rebia has exhorted all the stakeholders to strive hard to ensure that the benefits of all the departmental schemes reached the needy people, especially in rural areas of the state. Addressing a review meeting of his department here yesterday, Rebia appealed the deputy director of Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and Child Development Project Officers (CDPOs) to implement the centrally sponsored schemes under the department sincerely and methodically in the

interest of the state. The Minister asked the officers to utilize the funds judiciously and complete the schemes on time to benefit the targeted sections of the society, an official report informed here today.

Rebia asked the executing officers to prioritize the schemes in terms of need of the people and assured to pool in resources to implement the schemes under the department.

Women and Child Development Commissioner Gamli Padu threw light on the activities of the department and said that it was travelling the proverbial extra mile to implement the schemes efficiently in the interest of the beneficiaries.

Earlier, WCD Director Tokmem Pertin Loyi gave an overview of various schemes implemented by the department through a power-point presentation. She appealed to the deputy director (ICDS) and CDPOs to leave no stone unturned to make all the schemes under their jurisdiction a success.