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7,200-cr boost for rural growth: AP CM
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu set the target of Rs 7,200 crore to spend for the next financial year under the MGNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme).
Amaravati: Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu set the target of Rs 7,200 crore to spend for the next financial year under the MGNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme).
Participating in a review meeting with officials at Interim Secretariat Complex at Velagapudi here on Thursday, the Chief Minister said the funds should be spent for development of villages.
He said the government had utilised Rs 6,000 crore successfully for various development schemes in the last year. He asked the officials do not consider the scheme was meant only to provide employment guarantee from 100 to 150 days in a year in drought-hit conditions only.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- CM instructs officials to spend available funds for NREGS without waiting for funds’ release
- Says the jobs scheme is not confined to provision of work in drought-hit areas, but is also aimed at creation of permanent assets and development of infrastructure
- Asks officials to ensure digging of four lakh farm ponds and setting up of two lakh vermi-compost units in 2017-2018
“The funds can be utilised for development of the villages in a big way and can also be used for creation of wealth. Especially, basic facilities and infrastructure can be created through the scheme,” he said.
The Chief Minister set the new target to officials of digging four lakh farm ponds and setting up of two lakh vermi-compost units in 2017-2018. He also called for planting of saplings on road margins for a total length of 3,000 kilometre across the State and construction of 4,000 permanent buildings for anganwadi centres.
Similarly, CC roads should be laid for two lakh kilometres, 2.5 lakh houses and 70 stadiums should be constructed in the State, he said. Naidu directed the officials to involve the 90 lakh Dwacra women in the NREGS works and take steps to create earning capacity of Rs 10,000 to each family.
The officials of Panchayat Raj and Horticulture departments were told to prepare an action plan for making and supplying vermi-compost to farmers by creating awareness on it.
The Chief Minister ordered the officials to spend money first from available sources without waiting for release of funds under the scheme. He also asked the officials to implement plans to make Andhra Pradesh top in Antyodaya scheme under which 50,000 villages in the country are to be made self-sufficient.
Ministers Palle Raghunatha Reddy, Devineni Uma Maheshwara Rao, Kamineni Srinivas, K Mrunalani and several officials took part in the meeting.
