Every Member of Parliament (MP) in Chhattisgarh would have to select villages till November 10, 2014 and develop them as ‘Model villages’ by year 2016.
This was informed during a video-conference at the Mantralaya here that under ‘MP Model Village Scheme’, by the year 2019, they would have to develop two more villages of the State as ‘Model villages’, officials stated.
In general areas, villages with population of 3000-5000 will be selected and in remote areas, villages with population of 1000-3000 would be selected under the scheme.
It was also informed in the conference that on October 30, 2013, a meeting of all the MPs of the States (except the nominated ones) has been scheduled at the Mantralaya.
Senior Officials of Union Ministry of Panchayat and Rural Development Ministry have issued directives to the officials of State Government’s Panchayat and Rural Development Department for finalising action plan for making ‘MP Model Village. ‘
On Monday, necessary deliberation on selection of villages and implementation of ‘MP Model Village Scheme’ was held at NIC Room of Mantralaya (Mahanadi Bhavan) through video conference.
In the video conference, Secretary of Union Panchayat Ministry lC Goyal, Joint Secretary Aparajita Sarangi and Additional Chief Secretary of Chhattisgarh Government MK Raut, Secretary, Panchayat and Rural Development Department PC Mishra, Director Brajesh Chandra Mishra, Additional Commissioner (Development) Subhash Mishra and Additional Commissioner (MNREGA) Yashwant and other officials concerned were also present.
For implementation of MP Model Village Scheme, Subhash Mishra is the Nodal Officer at state-level and District Collector is the Nodal Officer at the district level.