Principal Secretary Planning-cum-Finance Department Amit Khare said on Friday that that the relief measures suggested by the State Government should be implemented with immediate effect to provide people with employment, agricultural resources, drinking water etc.
While holding a meeting of the State-level Task Force constituted to deal with the problems of scanty rain during Kharif harvest 2015, he laid emphasis on implementing immediate and short-term measures apart from adopting long term measures for water conservation & change in crops.
The Principal Secretary requested all the officers present in the meeting to upload list of works done by concerned departments, list of beneficiaries, list of work places etc. on their website.
Principal Secretary, Rural Development department, NN Sinha said that the MGNREGA work has been started in the affected panchayats and is being monitored. He said that out of the Rs. 950 crores allotted for the works Rs.700 crore has been spent. Moreover, an amount of Rs. 480.00 crore has been put under revolving funds. He said that the RDD will ensure at least one MGNREGA work in each village in all affected 126 blocks and monitor it. In the remaining blocks, at least one work should be in operation.
Sinha said that 83,138 wells and 1,22,868 ponds constructed under MGNREGA and Watershed Development programmes & Agriculture & Welfare Departments have been requested to provide pump sets to the farmers.
Secretary, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry department, NM Kulkarni said that seeds have started to be brought in the districts and instructions have been given to the Agriculture Department to ensure availability of seeds in the affected blocks. Distribution of pump sets among the farmers is also going on. 6300 pump sets have been distributed so far. It has been directed to distribute 10,000 pump sets by December this year, he informed.