The NITI Aaayog has sanctioned Rs 6 crore for Koraput and Nabarangpur as they secured good rank in the Aspirational District Programme.

While Nabarangpur has stood third in the overall ranking in the country, Koraput has done exceedingly well in agriculture and water resources sectors.

While Sukma in Chhattisgarh stood first in overall ranking, Udalguri in Assam stood second.

Koraput Collector Madhusudan Mishra and Nabaranpur Collector Ajit Kumar Mishra have been lauded for their efforts.

NITI Aayog Chief Executive Amitabh Kant has congratulated the district teams as well as Central Prabhari Officers of  concerned districts.

Earlier, Malkangiri district had been allocated additional Rs 3 crore for its excellent performance.

The NITI Aayog CEO has also urged the State Administration to make a Good Service Entry in their ACRs for their excellent performance in the districts.

Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy, who is monitoring the activities of the Aspirational District Programmess regularly, has also been appreciated by NITI Aayog.

Recently, Central Prabhari Officer Satyabrat Sahu visited Rayagada district and then held discussions with the Chief Secretary on the progress and bottlenecks in implementation of programmess in the backward district.

In October-November Delta Ranking, Rayagada and Gajapati preformed exceedingly well in basic infrastructure and Malkangiri in education sectors and their efforts have been appreciated by the NITI Aayog.

Now both the district administrations would chalk out detailed programmes and an action plan for implementation of various projects. The programmes and the action plan would be sent the Ministry of Finance for approval of the projects. Team of experts of the Asian Development Bank(ADB) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) would be guiding the district administrations in preparing the programme and the action plan, said sources.