Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Ministry recognises NREGS achievements of CCpur

By S Singlianmang Guite

Lamka, Oct 20: With the Union Rural Development Ministry recommending the benefit of conducting a peer workshop session to Sumant Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Churachandpur, the Ministry has formally recognized the outstanding feat achieved by the district in implementing NREGA.

In his intimation, Alok Kumar, Executive Director of National Institute of Administrative Research (NIAR), Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) said, acknowledging the outstanding work of DC Churachandpur on NREGA, the Ministry of Rural Development has made the recommendation. The workshop meant for Principal Secretaries, Commissioners of Rural Development and DCs of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaran-chal will be held at Lucknow on October 23 and 24.

Singh is to conduct a session on, ‘Impact of NREGA: A District Perspective’.

Talking to the media he said, he will be elaborating on the methods and practices initiated and adopted in Churachandpur under NREGS and the impact and changes brought about by NREGS in the rural economy, particularly in the lives of the district’s rural poor.

NIAR has been selected by RD Ministry as National Resource Centre for capacity building under NREGS, and it was under this capacity building exercise the Peer Learning Workshop has been organized. DCs with outstanding performances in NREGS are usually selected as resource persons to conduct the sessions, alongside reputed personalities.

This time around, Singh will share the fate of eminent economist of international repute Prof Jean Dreze and Development Commissioner of Bihar, Sh SM Raju.

Launched in 2007-08 under the second phase, Churachandpur has witness relatively unusual successes under NREGS. Four National Level Monitors including the Director of NREGA has visited the district and all of them have rated Churachandpur as one of the best. In fact, a study commission by Ministry of Minority Affairs GOI, and conducted by Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati has established that 96.90 percent of households in the district were aware of NREGA while 93.80 percent were benefited.

None of the seven other schemes included in the survey even attain the 50 percent mark in both the categories.

THE SANGAI EXPRESS

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