Panaji, Nov 28 (KNN) Aiming to finalise the tribal development plan for the Goa, Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) under ministry of Tribal Affairs held a virtual meeting on 26th November with Goa Administration.

The virtual meeting was chaired by Parimal Rai, Chief Secretary of Goa, and was attended by Mr. Reddy, Principal Secretary, Tribal, Subhash Chandra, PCCF, Pravir Krishna, Managing Director, TRIFED and senior officials of TRIFED.

The main agenda of the meeting was to finalise the Tribal Development Plan for the state of Goa for the establishment of 25 Van DhanVikas Kendras, 1 Tribal food park, 2 showrooms in North and South Goa.

The overall achievement as on 23rd November, 2020 is Rs. 24227 crore (394%) against the CAPEX target for 2020-21 i.e. Rs.61483 crore.

While reviewing the performance of CPSEs, Sitharaman said that CAPEX by CPSEs is a critical driver of economic growth and need to be scaled up for the FYs 2020-21 & 2021-22. The Finance Minister appreciated the efforts of the Ministries and CPSEs for making visible efforts to meet out the CAPEX targets.

However, Sitharaman said that more efforts are still required to achieve the target of 75% CAPEX by Q3 and more than 100% by Q4 of the FY 21. The Finance Minister encouraged the CPSEs to perform better to achieve targets and to ensure that the capital outlay provided to them for the year 2020-21 is spent properly and within time.

Sitharaman asked the Secretaries to closely monitor the performance of CPSEs in order to ensure to achieve the target of CAPEX and make plan for it. She also asked the Secretaries to proactively sort out the unresolved issues of the CPSEs.