The State Government has appointed Roopa Roshan Sahoo as Member-Secretary of the Poverty and Human Development Monitoring Agency (PHDMA).
The new assignment will be in addition to her current responsibility as Additional Secretary to the Chief Minister, a notification by the General Administration Department said. The Government is planning to give PHDMA, an autonomous agency under the Planning and Convergence Department, a boost. The PHDMA’s mandate is to work for strengthening poverty and human development monitoring systems and formulating pro-poor programmes and projects.
With the battle against Covid-19 expected to continue for long, the Government wants to effectively track poverty reduction and document important processes. The PHDMA is also likely to go for agreements with different agencies, including international organisations, to scale up its activities, the official added.