Chief Minister Raghubar Das today launched ‘Yojna Banao Abhiyan’ to link people living in rural areas with project planning activities and provide them opportunity to write development story for their villages. The initiative would focus on five broad activities related to the development of villages.
The programme targets mobilization of resources, awareness drives and encouraging people to participate in project planning process that would be conducted for the next two months.
“Development of villages is the goal of the government and for that it is imperative that policies for villages are framed in villages only. Everyone must play their part in this activity and I will also take part in meetings of 8-10 panchayats,” said Das.
Das requested Ministers, MlAs, Chief Secretary, Principal Secretaries, Secretaries, Deputy Commissioners and other government officials to attend the meetings so that people’s participation increases. The CM stated government’s carrot and stick policy as he asserted that the best performing district, block, panchayat will be felicitated whereas officials who will not play their role would be punished. Das announced IT infrastructure for villages in the next budget and third party audit of development projects.
“It is the target of the incumbent government that panchayats buildings are made in 2016-17 and they are provided IT infrastructure by 2017. This will help in bridging gap between administration and people besides putting a lid on corruption,” maintained Das.
The CM, on the occasion, assured that newly elected people’s representatives would be trained and their participation in the programme would be ensured. He also communicated government’s commitment for water conservation by initiating renovation of ponds, check dams and other water bodies to help agricultural activities.
Expressing happiness at the new approach to project planning, Speaker of Jharkhand Assembly, Dinesh Oraon said Jharkhand holds immense potential in the field of agriculture and training, sense of responsibility is only required to make best use of it.
Minister of Rural Development, Neelkanth Singh Munda pointed out that schemes worth Rs 4,000-crore would be spent for the implementing projects in 4402 panchayats in Jharkhand. As many as 600 resource persons and team 22,000 panchayat planning members would take part in the programme.
The discussion programme to frame village development plans would be conducted from February 1-24 and a final report on the outcome would be sent to the central government by February 29. The planned activities would be conducted for three days for a cluster of 100 families each in all the panchayats.
Sports Minister Amar Kumar Bauri, Health Minister Ramchandra Chandravanshi, Chief Secretary Rajiv Gauba, Development Commissioner RS Poddar, Director General of ATI Sudhir Prasad, Principal Secretary to CM, Sanjay Kumar and Principal Secretary of Rural Development, NN Sinha graced the occasion with their presence.