Nursery will be made at the district level for Birsa Harit Gram Yojana: Chandrashekhar

Ranchi: Secretary of the Rural Development Department Chandrashekhar has said that the implementation of schemes related to Mnreva should be done in a better and planned manner. Mnrega is a multidimensional scheme, under which many schemes related to employment, housing, drinking water, women empowerment, irrigation, roads, plantation etc are being implemented. There should be more focus on creating man days under Mnrega so that more and more people can get employment in rural areas.

He was addressing the officers in the review meeting of the Rural Development Department on Tuesday. He said that there are many challenges before the districts. They also have to take immediate decisions according to time and circumstances. In such a situation they should take your decisions in such a way that maximum residents of the state get its benefit. 

Mnrega is an integrated form of many schemes and this can benefit a large population of rural areas he said adding that in some areas the districts have made good achievements. In such a situation, where the pace of development is slow, all concrete steps should be taken to speed it up. He said that many schemes are being implemented by the Rural Development Department and separate dashboards should be made for these schemes. There should be complete information about the schemes on the dashboard.

He said that the members of the mission team nominated for intensive supervision of the schemes run by the Rural Development Department in the state and for continuous guidance to the districts, should visit the area and continuously monitor the schemes because this campaign will go on continuously. It was informed in the meeting that the Nilambar Pitabanar Jal Samriddhi Yojana, Birsa Harit Gram Yojana, Veer Shaheed Poto Ho Khel Vikas Yojana and Didi Bari Yojana taken in the year 2022- 23 under MNREGA have got better results.

Under the Nilambar-Pitamber Jal Samriddhi Yojana, a target of one lakh hectares was kept, while the scheme was implemented in 1.94 lakh hectares. On the other hand, in 1881 sports grounds have been built against the target of one thousand grounds under Veer Shaheed Poto Ho Khel Vikas Yojana. Similarly, the target of developing 26 thousand acres as compared to 20 thousand acres under Birsa Harit Gram Yojana has been developed.

On the other hand, under the Didi Bari scheme, a target has been set to make five lakh nutrition gardens. He further directed that the schemes of the Rural Development Department should have IEC activity in all the districts. Under Mnrega, in the financial year 2022-23, Rs 2223.82 crore has been given for payment of wages, Rs 715.33 crore for expenditure on material and administrative items.

The target was set to generate 900 lakh man-days in the financial year 2022-23 under Mnrega against which the state created 915.42 lakh man-days.47.53 percent of women have participated in the man-days created under Mnrega.

The target is to construct 47855 houses under Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Awas Yojana run by the state government. Out of these, the construction work of 39836 houses has been completed, which is 83 percent of the target.