Naveen urges Collectors to ensure implementation of livelihood programmes
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has urged the District Collectors to ensure that the livelihood programmes must be implemented effectively to benefit the poor.
Reviewing the MGNREGA programme and urban employment schemes here on Tuesday through video conferencing, Patnaik warned the officials not to sideline the poor and the needy during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The Chief Minister said it is the priority of his government to provide employment opportunities to the poor people in the rural regions of Odisha during the pandemic.
He said the government has targeted for the creation of 20 crore mandays through the livelihood programmes and added that strict action will be taken against those officials who will not take adequate measures for disbursement of payments to the people immediately.