Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 11: An amount of Rs. 430 crore has been spent under MGNREGA till December thereby generating 208 lakh man days in the State.
The information was given in a high level review meeting of Rural Development Department convened by Minister for Rural Development, Ali Mohammad Sagar here today.
Commissioner Secretary Rural Development, Farooq Ahmed Peer, Directors Rural Development, Jammu/ Kashmir, Shafiq Ahmed Raina, Mir Altaf Ahmed, Director Rural Sanitation Tufial Matoo, Member Secretary MGREGA, Pawan Rathore, CEOs of IWMP and other senior officers present in the meeting.
Mr. Sagar impressed upon the officers to ensure that the benefit of various rural development schemes reaches the genuine beneficiaries and maximum care should be taken while identifying them. He said, “we have to also see to it that the funds earmarked are utilized to the maximum and that too in a judicious manner.”
The Minister while referring to the land mark scheme of MGNREGA said that the scheme which has been responsible for changing the socio-economic profile of the people living in rural and far flung areas should further be accelerated so that more and more get benefitted from the same. He said that it has been instrumental in providing the much needed employment to the people at their door steps and has stopped the migration of people to different States.
Mr. Sagar also directed the officers to ensure that the Panchayat Ghars being constructed across the State for augmenting the infrastructure of the Panchayati Raj Institutions are completed within the shortest possible time so that Panchs and Sarpanchs carry out their day to day work smoothly.
The meeting was told that 827 Panchayat Ghars would be completed upto March this year and the same would then be handed over to their respective panchayats.
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