DM conducts review meeting on health

DM conducts review meeting on health

….. DM directs to speedup the issue of birth certificate in the district

Chatrapur: Issue of birth certificate will speedup now onwards in Ganjam. Within few hours after the delivery of the baby, the certificate will be issued, District Magistrate Dr Kishan Kumar directed in the review meeting organized in the conference hall of the District Magistrate of Ganjam on Wednesday.

Now the birth certificate will be issued with the cheque of Rs 1400 to the rural women and Rs 1000 to urban women in the scheme of Janani Suraksha Yojana. The work of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in the district was reviewed in the meeting.

There are 50354 women were involved in the NRHM scheme for the financial year 2010-11. Ganjam district demanded 12 crore in NRHM scheme last year, but it got 2 crore 65 lakh only. This money was used for the construction and repairing of 12 building from which the work of five buildings are under construction.

Among others, CDMO of Ganjam Dr Ratnakar Behera, Engineer Simanchala Maharana, Pradeep Das, Rajendra Nayak, DTS Manas Khara were present in the review meeting.