NREGS and PMGSY
NREGS, PMGSY July 18th. 2007, 12:46amNew Indian Express reports on Rural development secretary Subas Pani’s visit and his suggestions to Orissa government on NREGS and PMGSY (Pradhan mantri gramsadak yojana). Following are some excerpts.
The Centre has advised the State Government to increase its spending capacity as allocation of funds is unlimited under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) and National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).
Union Rural Development Secretary Subas Pani … said Orissa and Bihar were two focus states of the Centre.
Pani further informed the Chief Minister that the Centre had increased the fund for capacity building. Earlier, two percent of the total allocation was meant for capacity building. Now this has been increased to four percent.
This can be better utilised for online monitoring of the projects, he said. Pani reviewed the progress of the two programmes at an official meeting and strongly advised the State Government to put an effective mechanism in place for timely execution of a large number of projects and handling such huge funds.
The State Government has submitted proposals of nearly 4,000 crore to the Rural Development Ministry under PMGSY and NREGS.
While the Panchayati Raj Department has submitted proposal for Rs 2,500 crore to the Centre under NREGS and other wage employment programmes, project proposals worth Rs 1,500 crore by the Rural Development Department are pending for clearance.
The Union Secretary strongly felt the need for a dedicated team of officials at district and State-levels for monitoring in view of the large number of projects under execution.
Over one lakh projects have been taken up under the NREGS while hundreds of rural connectivity projects are under implementation.
The Union Secretary emphasised on computerisation of gram panchayats for online monitoring of the projects.
He also suggested to involve officials of other line departments to monitor the NREGS projects.
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July 21st, 2007 at 2:33 am
The ball thus is in the court of GOO and it’s ability to expend. It can’t any more post delinquent officers in backward areas and forget about them. They have to be placed in suspension and effective officers like Bishnupada Shetty or Aurobindo Padhi picked for such assignments. Mark the words of ex-chief Secretary – there is no limit on money expenditure – only limit I guess is capacity to spend/execute, of officers. Since not many Bishnupada and Aurobinda Padhis or Vishal Devs are born we have to both use technology to monitor others and serious and rigorous programs to train the other BDOs and DMs. This is similar to exceptional born leaders like Jamsetji Tata or Dhiru Bhai Ambani vs. MBAs from the IIMs.
Using the 4% fund this training for next year should be planned from now on. So come next March we have officers for 200 blocks are trained properly. This year is almost over. Except of course creative book keeping which will start in October/November – when the funds are not that necessary. Who knows may be this year we will have a better story coming from the trenches. We need 200 dedicated BDOs to make the program a success. Can we train them in time?
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:57 am
hii this is best project for rural area