With an intention to create employment opportunity especially in disaster affected areas, the State Government has allocated Rs161 crore. This money will be used to improve production of crops, link development to self employment, provide financial support to local institutions and to connect them to the market.
The decision was taken by Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar at a meeting held at the secretariat on Thursday.
The Chief Secretary was presiding over a meeting of the integrated fund for agriculture development’s steering committee Integrated livelihood support project.
Subhash also directed officials concerned to open milk distribution centres; create market for livestock development, sale of fruits and
vegetables, village development and eco tourism. There is a need to set a target for this work, he added.
During the next meeting, a review will be held to see how the locals have benefited from this program. During the meeting, it was said that for food security, sale worthy crops should be raised. A committee will be constituted to ensure the same. There will be an increase in production of dairy, traditional crops, vegetables, spices and fruits. Several departments will be identified to boost dairy farming, and poultry. Under the program, 83 milk
distribution centres will be set up. Help will be taken from the existing 71 centres.
A survey has been done to for the vocational training programs. eight courses have been identified for nine blocks. Four companies and one NGO have been identified to impart training. 15000 people will be trained under this programme. Besides this 125 students will get trained for 3 courses from open university.
Present at the meeting were additional Chief Secretary Rakesh Sharma, Principal Secretary Watershed MH Khan, Secretary Rural development Vinod Fonia, additional secretary finance Dilip Jawalkar, Chief project director Vijay Kumar, Edward Mallori and Meera Mishra.