Raipur, March 06, 2010
The Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is creating ample job opportunities for poor families dwelling in rural pockets. The government has made adequate arrangements to ensure that the benefit of this scheme reach to needy people. The views were expressed by several experts during a day-long seminar that held at Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (RSU) the other day. The subject of the seminar was - The implementation, challenges and prospects of Mahatama Gandhi NREGS.
The experts informed that NREGS had been implemented in the rural areas with complete transparency. The government is monitoring its functioning on regular basis and its social auditing is being done twice a year, they said. The scheme was launched in February 2006 and a number of challenges and obstacles occurred but the relevant implementing staffers and the villagers succeeded in overcoming every adversity jointly, the experts informed.
The Indian Public Administration Association’s (IPAA) regional president KK Sethi informed that that association was constituted in 1958 with an aim to give recommendations and suggestions on significant subjects. In addition, the IPAA regularly organises symposiums on burning issues, he said. Sethi felt that the NREGS still needed propaganda in the remote areas. He further expressed his concerns over delay in payments of workers and hoped that the problem would be solved at the earliest.
Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) AK Vijayvargiya said that the NREGS had certainly benefited the villagers, but it required constant vigilance. The complaints lodged by the villagers pertaining to the scheme should also be redressed promptly, he suggested.
Retired IAS officer Indira Mishra said the scheme had been framed especially for poor people and no state government could ignore it. She also shed light on various impediments that occur in implementation of NREGS.
Informing in detail about the scheme, NREGA’s Additional Commissioner Shahla Nigar said about 35.36 lakh families had been registered in the state by far and accounts of about 56.50 lakh families had been opened. Each family is termed as one unit while projects under NREGS are been selected according to priorities of the villages, she said. Among the registered workers under the scheme, the implementation agency is ought to provide job to 48 percent women, she said.
“The NREGS workers get some mandatory facilities like shed at project site, drinking water, etc. All the data related to the scheme will be available on internet from April 2010. The government has made an arrangement of biometric attendance for the NREGS workers of Dhamtari. The grievances of workers are also being solved,” Nigar informed.
She further informed that state’s four districts – Raipur, Bastar, Bilaspur and Koria had also bagged national-level award for successful implementation of the scheme in past two years.
The seminar was organised by IPAA’s Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh branch and RSU. The seminar was attended by RSU’s Vice Chancellor Prof SK Pandey, economist Prof Hanumant Yadav, students and several experts from different sectors.
RMC cracks whip on illegal marriage palaces
Seals Hotel Oberoi Gulshan
Takes action against Sibbal Palace, Hotel Babylon, Golden Tulip, Saubhagya Tilak and Hotel Florence
Raipur, March 06, 2010
The RMC on Saturday cracked whip on illegal marriage palaces by sealing Hotel Oberoi Gulshan and by taking prohibitionary action against Sibbal Palace, Hotel Babylon, Golden Tulip, Saubhagya Tilak and Hotel Florence.
The RMC commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary informed that the municipal had served several notices to these marriage palaces in the past but none stopped renting their halls and grounds for marriage purposes.
These illegal marriage palaces were causing inconvenience to the people, especially motorists because traffic congestions frequently occurred near such spots, Choudhary said. In this regard, the RMC has received several complaints from common mass, he said.
To prevent such practices in the capital, the RMC has launched campaign against illegal marriage palaces. The municipal has already prepared a list of illegal marriage halls, hotels and edifices.
Choudhary informed that the municipal had pasted a public notice in the premises of Sibbal Palace, Hotel Babylon, Golden Tulip, Saubhagya Tilak and Hotel Florence which said that such establishments were not allowed to rent their space for marriage ceremonies. “However, when the operators of these establishments assured the RMC in written that they will not provide their halls or grounds for marriage purpose, our team did not sealed those places,” Choudhary said.
While Hotel Oberoi Gulshan located at VIP road was sealed. The RMC also pasted a public notice in the hotel’s premises.
RMC’s suspended officials reinstated
Raipur, March 06, 2010
The RMC has reinstated its two suspended officials Zone-4 commissioner Vinod Devangan and officer in-charge Culture, Tourism, Entertainment and Heritage department Dr Preetam Mishra on Friday. The two officials had been suspended for negligence in duty by the Urban Administration Minister Rajesh Munat during a tribute programme that was held in February 11, 2010.
The duo’s suspension was protested by a section of municipal officials and employees who had alleged that the state government was targeting specific officials who were discharging their duties sincerely and exposing irregularities, especially in sanitary works.
Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak had also written a letter to the municipal commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary in this regard asking him to inquire into the matter before suspending the officials. However, according to information, Munat had nodded for reinstatement of the duo.
Choudhary has cautioned both the officials not to reiterate such mistakes in future.
Notably, Munat had ordered suspension of the two officials holding them responsible for mismanagement of tribute programme that was organised on the death anniversary of Pt Deendayal Upadhyay at Telebandha Ring Road Chowk on February 11.
Both the officials had been given the responsibility to see the arrangements of the programme.
However, when Munat reached the spot, he saw garbage and junk items scattering at one corner while the chairs and tables were unclean. Later, when Chief Minister Raman Singh arrived to garland Upadhyay’s statue, the mike from the stage was missing.
Irked with mismanagement, Munat had promptly directed RMC commissioner to suspend the two responsible officials.
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