Department of Rural Development (RD) held a performance review meeting at RD conference hall under the chairmanship of director, RD, Imlimeren Jamir on July 1.
Delivering introductory speech, principal secretary, RD, Bendangkokba, highlighted a case study on the migration of population from rural to urban sector, which he said has gone up beyond expectation over the years leading to a drop in rural population. With the decline of rural population, he said the working force in the villages has been reduced whereby jhum cycle has been raised from 7-10 years to 10-15 years.
To curb this migration of population from rural to urban areas, he suggested strengthening the implementation of programmes such as MGNREGA, GIA and RSETI (NRLM) and providing income generating schemes to the rural youth.
The need to create a corpus fund for the rural youth from the percentage earmarked under GIA was stressed and to provide financial assistance to the farmers and create wholesale markets in all the blocks under MGNREGA.
He also directed all the districts and blocks to submit progress report of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) by July 15 and geo-tagging report of all programmes by July 31. All the officers were asked to furnish replies of audit para, success stories under GIA and utilization certificate by July 25.
The performance review meeting covered important issues and problems relating to MGNREGA, GIA/MCG/VDB Welfare fund, RGSA and PMAY (G).