KERALA CABINET SANCTIONS FUNDS FOR WELFARE SCHEMES

KERALA CABINET SANCTIONS FUNDS FOR WELFARE SCHEMES

The Kerala Cabinet today sanctioned Rs 10 crore for constructing 300 houses for fishermen which has already been enmarked in the budget. Briefing on Cabinet decisions here, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said sanction has been accorded to form an empowered committee consisting of a team leader and six sectoral officers to monitor the utilization of funds given to the state by the Centre for the uplift of primitive tribes.The amount of Rs 148 crore should be utilized within three years.Steps have been initiated to extend the ban on plastics to panchayaths too. Necessary amendments would be made to SEC 219 of the Panchayath Act in this regard.

Administrative sanction has been given to construct a building of Rs 75 lakh for starting Civil Service Academy at Palakkad Victoria College. A sum of Rs 10 lakh has been sanctioned for the Sandesha Yatra organised by Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi as part of the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations highlighting the places that Mahatma Gandhi visited in Kerala.It has also been decided to hand over the Agro Processing Company at Nadukavu in Moovatupuzha to Vegetable and Food Promotion Council.A sum of Rs 10 lakh has been sanctioned for the year long birthday centenary celebration of Sree Chithira Thirunal.

    Prof. John Kurakar