Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh has topped in the implementation of MGNREGA in the State during the ongoing current financial year by utilising Rs 63.54 crore projects and many families have been given 100 days employment. District Chanba has been placed at the second position.
Disclosing this at a news conference, Deputy Commissioner, Sandeep Kadam, said the credit for this achievement went to the field staff who worked with a missionary zeal on a war-footing in their endeavour for the elevation of poverty which is a great scourge in the rural India.
The MGNREGA project has been launched in all the 78 Blocks of 12 districts of the Hilly State. The Block Development Officer is the the key-agency engaged in the implementation of MGNEREGA with the assistance of AEs and JEs of the development and Irrigation and Public Health departments who identify the suitable and feasible sites plantation, conservation of land, water harvesting, minor irrigation canals, tanks and check dams to conserve e the fragile strata of the lower foothills of the Himalayas.
“We are doing it well with the tremendous response of the local people”, said the Deputy Commissioner.
The work of the ongoing schemes would be further intensified with the release of Rs 186 crore as announced recently by Panchayati Raj and Rural Development Minister, Anil Sharma recently.