The House panel completed its visit to the district headquarters hospital in just 30 minutes, passing some instructions to the hospital authorities, works department and the CDMO.
It held a review meeting regarding the developmental works of the district. All the line officers, including district Collector Pradeep Kumar Rath and SP Nikhil Kanodia were present.
It had been expected that there would be a serious discussion on utter negligence in the health sector, but nothing of the sort happened. The committee headed by MLA Pravat Ranjan Biswal completed the review within 45 minutes and left for Jharsuguda.
It had been expected that there would be hot discussions on different subjects, including procurement of paddy and PDS. But the issues were skipped. However, during the period, the members asked the officials to make full utilisation of the budget provided for the purpose by March.
Discussions were also made on four-laning of the Sambalpur-Rourkela State Highway 10, reconstruction of Jhulenpali bridge in Jamankira-Kuchinda road, construction of stadium at Kuchinda and PMGSY roads, among others.
