AGARTALA/SABROOM, June 25 (TIWN): Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Revenue, and Public Welfare Department Badal Chowdhury addressing the recently organized review meeting in Pouangbari Panchayat Samiti hall at Sabroom said that all the development works and undergoing projects have to be completed within the given time. All the representatives of the Panchayat level would be given awareness about the entire undergoing government project in the area.

Public welfare department minister Badal Chowdhury further said that Mid-Day-Meal Scheme is a school meal programme of the Government of India designed to improve the nutritional status of school-age children nationwide. The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in Primary and Upper Primary Classes to all the Government, Government Aided, Local Body, Education Guarantee Scheme, and Alternate Innovative Education Centres, Madarsa and Maqtabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and National Child Labour Project schools, run by the Ministry of Labour and it should always look forward to provide nutritious food to the children under the mid-day meal program.         

Speaking on the issue of Malaria and water borne diseases rising high in the interior areas said that, as temperature soars in; several water borne diseases hit the remote areas of the state creating panic among the tribal hamlets and others.  Instant medication and proper medical aid should be provided to the villagers for curbing Malaria.       

A committee should be constituted in the village which will dig out the information for the betterment of the transportation system in the villages, said Minister Badal Chowdhury.

Special provision should be adopted for establishment of primary health centers in the tribal-dominated regions in the State, considered remote and geographically difficult to access. The committee should look forward for strengthening the infrastructure for reaching out to the most underprivileged tribal people and resolve the issue of shortage of doctors and para-medical staff in hospital, added Badal Chowdhury.

However, MLA Rita Kar, MDC Arun Tripura, DM Debashish Basu along with other dignitaries remained present in the program.