Rural ministry to monitor, grade schemes

Nov 05, 2010 - Amit Agnihotri |

New Delhi

In order to strengthen the monitoring of its programmes like flagship MGNREGA, the rural development ministry is planning to allow the national-level monitors (panel of retired officers who visit districts) to grade the districts on how those schemes are being implementing there.
As per the plan, the NLMs will grade implementation of the programmes like flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, PradhanMantri Gram Sadak Yojna, Indira Awas Yojna, Integrated Watershed Management Programme, Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme and the Total Sanitation Campaign in each district they visit.
There are reports of MGNREGA funds being misused in the states.
The grading may be done on achievement of physical targets and financial targets separately.

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4 Naxals killed in Orissa encounter
AGE CORRESPONDENT
BHUBANESWAR

Nov. 4: At least four Maoists were on Thursday killed in a fiercely fought gunbattle with the security personnel in Orissa’s Malkangiri district, nearly 650 km from here.
A huge cache of arms and ammunitions were recovered from the slain rebels.
According to Malkangiri district superintendent of police Anirudh Singh, acting on intelligence inputs, a joint team of the anti-Naxal special operation group and state armed police raided a Maoist camp in Nuaguda forest early Thursday morning.

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