Haryana Government will constitute State level Committee (SlC) under centrally sponsored National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) for effective implementation and monitoring of the scheme.
An official spokesperson said that the 15-member State level Committee would have the Additional Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary of Agriculture Department as its chairman and Director General, Agriculture as its member secretary. Besides this, the Committee would have 13 members.
He said that the SlC would approve and monitor mission implementation plan and annual action plan and would engage non-government organisation for implementation of cluster or village development plan. The function of the Committee would be to liaison, review the implementation of interventions out-lined in Mission documents of NMSA under national action plan on climate change. The Committee would also engage suitable consultant for effective implementation of NMSA as per guidelines.
Other functions of the committee included organising base line survey and feasibility studies in different parts of the State covering various crops and technologies, to ensure the allocation of state’s share of resources required for implementing the scheme and make it available to the implementing agencies at the district level.
The function of the Committee would be to finalise and forward the consolidated action plan of the districts to Union Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operation Department and to mobilise of credit requirements of the farmers through the Financial Institutions.
Besides, the Committee would facilitate Precision Farming Development Centres in organising various training and extension programmes for farmers, officials, NGOs, entrepreneurs etc and would host a website indicating the details and status on the progress of the NMSA in different districts of the State, added the spokesperson.