Rural development schemes to be reviewed

Performance review committee meeting on Wednesday and Thursday

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Brajesh Kumar | March 15, 2010



The rural development ministry is all set to review the performance of all its flagship schemes for the first quarter of this year. The performance review committee of the ministry is meeting on Wednesday and Thursday to take stock of the progress under the various schemes of the ministry.

The performance under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) and the preparations for the BPL Census would be discussed on Wednesday. The Indira Awas Yojana (IAY), Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) and Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) would be taken up for review on Thursday.

This is the third meeting of the committee for the financial year 2009-10. Earlier two meetings took place on June 11-12 and October 8-9. In the meeting it emerged that the broad areas where improvements was required were job card issuing process, expansion of the basket of works, wage payment mechanism, vigilance and social audit, convergence and special attention to the northeastern states.

Committee meetings over the years have been an important monitoring tool for the ministry of rural development to take stock of the progress of the various flagship programs running all over the country. The participants include among others the secretaries and  representatives  from all  state governments/union territories overseeing the implementation of rural development programs, organisations like Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART), National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) along with representatives of the ministries of panchayati raj, statistics and programme implementation, finance, and the Planning Commission.

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