Mangalore: Tulasi Maddineni takes charge as DK Zilla Panchayat CEO

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, July 15, 2013: Tulasi Maddineni, an IAS officer of 2005 batch has taken charge as the new Chief Executive Officer of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat. She was earlier serving as DC of Koppal district. Tulasi took over from KN Vijayaprakash, the outgoing CEO.

Speaking after relinquishing charge, Vijayaprakash said  he was satisfied  over his performance in the ZP and said it was a matter of immense pleasure that the Zilla Panchayat secured the Nirmala Bharath Puraskar during his tenure.

 

He said the DK ZP has on anvil a project of issuing smart cards to the over 4500 members of the Koraga community in the district. He said the bio-metric card will have all details pertaining to the house, property and health chart. The survey in this regard is complete; he said and added that much of the data entry work is over.

 

Briefing about various schemes and programmes that were taken up and completed during his tenure, the CEO said he was quite satisfied with the innovative programmes implemented by the education department, health department and sanitation programmes in gram panchayats. “Apart from  winning awards for sanitation like Nirmal Gram Puraskar, Gourav Gram Sabha Puraskar, the panchayats in Dakshina Kannada have succeeded in implementing innovative programmes to promote cleanliness. Napkin unit in Laila gram panchayat has  been honoured as one among the 30 best rural innovations in India by NABARD. Solid waste management system has been implemented in 33 gram panchayats and the process is underway in 30 other gram panchayats.”

Several initiatives were taken up under the education department too. In one of such initiatives, co-operative societies in the district have pooled Rs eight lakh for the development of physically challenged children.

All the 2102 anganawadis in the district have been given electricity connection, Vijayaprakash said.

On the flip side, he expressed regrets for not succeeding in effectively implementing housing schemes, multi-village water supply scheme, house and site distribution for Koragas.