Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Aruna Sharma has directed the State MNREGA Commissioner to upload on its website panchayat-wise information about the beneficiaries of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA).
The ACS issued the direction in a meeting held here on Friday to take stock of the panchayat and rural development works in Bhopal division. Various development schemes including ultra-small banking, mukhya mantri gramin awas mission, state livelihood mission, mukhya mantri gram sadak yojna, e-panchayat, panchayat-raj, social security, MNREGA, mid-day meal and other such schemes were reviewed in the meeting.
Several senior officials including Madhya Pradesh Rural Road Development Authority CEO Alka Upadhyay, MNREGA Commissioner Ravindra Pastaur, Panchayat and Rural Development Department Secretary Rajesh Rajoura, Bhopal Collector and acting divisional commissioner Nikunj Shrivastav and all the district collectors of the division were present at the meeting apart from other officials.
While reviewing the e-panchayat programme, ACS Sharma said that a grant of Rs5 lakh would be provided for building e-room in old panchayat buildings. She informed that the proposal regarding purchase of computers has been already approved by the government. She also directed the collectors to make arrangements for providing basic training to all the panchayat secretaries.
In the review of Mukhya mantri gram sadak yojana, she directed the officials that regular monitoring of the scheme should be conducted. She also instructed that all the remaining work of asphaltation should be completed before the rainy season. The officials also discussed about the state Rural livelihood Mission. Sharma directed them that a proper credit plan should be prepared and also that the rural employment fairs should be organized in such ways to make it more effective.