SIKKIM:Smooth Municipality Election stressed by Chief Minister
Gangtok: A high level meeting was held Monday afternoon under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Dr. Pawan Chamling at the conference hall of the Tashiling Secretriat, Gangtok, which was attended by Council of Ministers, MLAs and senior State Government officials.
At the outset Chief Minister informed that in its last meeting held on 19th Feb the Cabinet had decided to hold the Elections to the Municipalities on 27th April 2010. He directed the concerned departments to take necessary actions like reservations etc in a systematic manner within the ambit of law for holding the elections smoothly.
In the meeting it was also decided to hold Self Employment Mela, first of its kind in the State, in which all the industrial units, power developers, educational instiutions, among others, will be advised to have their stalls and provide information on the emploment opportunities to the local unemployed youth including walk in interviews. Multinational companies will be also invited to participate in the Mela. Loans will be also disbursed by various financial institutions like SIDICO, SABCO and SKVIB to educated unemployed youths for self employment ventures.
Chief Minister told all concerned that the livelihood schools set up should be made effective and all opportunities should be given to local people. He also directed the Cooperative Deprtment to prepare the modalities for award of various works upto Rs.50 lakhs at Panchayat level itself to Cooperative Societies promoted by the unemployed youths at schdule of rates. The existing policy of providing works upto Rs.20 lakhs to Labour Cooperative Societies should be made more effective and all departments should follow this policy strictly, he said.
A cheque for Rs. 25,54,656 was also handed over to Chief Minister towards the payment of dividend by the Sikkim State Cooperative Bank for the year 2008-09.
The Bank has so far paid Rs.196.23 laks as dividend to the State Government since its formation. Chief Minister thanked the management of the bank and assured them full cooperation.
source: Sikkim Reporter
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