The Odisha livelihood Mission (OlM) would undertake activities in 43 more blocks from this year.
Panchayati Raj Department Commissioner-cum-Secretary Deoranjan Kumar Singh informed this at a workshop held here on Monday. While the mission was taking up livelihood programmes in 107 blocks, it would operate in 150 blocks now, said Singh.
“The Odisha livelihood Mission is now showing way to other States to uplift economic standards of rural poor,” Singh said at the valedictory session of the 3-day-long participatory planning workshop ‘Chintan-Manthan Shibir 2017-18’.
All funds allocated for the Odisha livelihood Mission for financial year 2016-16 was fully utilised, he said.
OlM Director Pranabjyoti Nath informed that action plan for the financial year 2017-18 has already been finalised.