Odisha CM to approve implementation of MUKTA actions plans in ULBs

BHUBANESWAR, Odisha: Under the state-funded flagship scheme Mukhyamantri Karma Tatpara Abhiyan (MUKTA), Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik will approve action plans in each urban local body to ensure basic amenities in 2,055 wards’ offices of 115 urban local bodies (ULBs).

A review meeting was conducted to focus on the ward-wise annual action plan for 2023-24, under the chairmanship of G Mathivathanan, Principal Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Government of Odisha. In the meeting, ULB officials were asked to submit action plans that are low cost and demand driven, sustainable, technically doable and labour oriented. They were also asked to concentrate on the development of ward-wise basic amenities for both slum and non-slum areas only on the basis of availability of government land and to have land clearance before preparation of the proposed projects. 

Each ULB level and ward level committees need to select suitable projects and be involved to identify potential Mission Shakti Groups and State Designated Agencies (SDA) as implementing agencies.