Special Secretary of Rural Development Department Nijlingapa and Garhwa DC Neha Arora participated in the Yojana Banao Abhiyan at several places in the district.
Participating in the event at Bana, Devgana Panchayat Bhawan under Meral Block and Baghauta Panchayat under Ramana block of this district, Nijlingapa said that this scheme is meant for the people to formulate plan at the village level and the Government will implement it. Since the feasibility of a project is best understood by the villagers itself, the Yojana Banao Abhiyan is an initiative towards involving people’s participation in budget making and allocation of funds. The State Government has launched Yojana Banao Abhiyan, an ambitious campaign to encourage people’s participation in planning at the grassroots level to meet the needs of villages.
After held a meeting with the all BDOs and SRT Nijlingappa State Government’s ambitious project aiming to mobilise the villagers including the PRI members who would know where the fund should be invested in.” As we all know, they know where the money can be best spent according to the village’s needs.
DC said that the Worked out following the models of Karnataka and Kerala, the campaign will involve communities and panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) for planning projects to be taken up under various Government schemes like MGNREGS, National Rural livelihood Mission, etc.
“We are hopeful that energetic panchayati raj institutions, better and judicious selection of work for creating livelihood and a ready list of projects that can be undertaken by any government departments are the expected outcomes of this campaign,” she added.