Bihar to celeberate one day as MNREGA day in every week

Patna,Jan,23: Chief Minister of Bihar Mr Nitish Kumar has announced that in Bihar one day in every week would be identfied as MNREGA Day.

On MNREGA Day the DM's would send officials to any panchayat to review the development works done under MNREGA . The task must be repeated in following week for other uncovered panchayat and so on to cover whole district in certain time. However, no government official would be sent again to the same panchayat.

Nitish has issued the directive on Jan-21 after making a high-level review of the different schemes in Patna district after the conclusion of phase one of his Seva Yatra.After the meeting, the CM and principal secretaries and secretaries traveled via road for Biharsharif to take the review meeting at Nalanda, his home district.

Nitish Kumar also emphasized that DMs must ensure that officials are told about their destination just before departure. The officials will be directed analyze the ongoing work in panchayats under MNREGA.

The DMs must act strongly against the officials against whom report is submitted, he said.He further said that the DMs didn’t need to visit panchayats and only do review of the completed projects.

Rozgar Sevaks must be available during review and provide required documents.If they fail to do so, FIRs would be lodged and they would be sent to jail without any hesitation.CM also directed the SSPs and SPs to direct the SHOs concerned police station to be present during panchayat-level review under this scheme.

As per Nitish Kumar in 4 months time all schemes in all the panchayats in every district must be reviewed and social auditing will be concluded as well. This policy would help to check corruption in MNREGA.The chief minister expressed his deep concern over the fact that Patna’s ranking is lowest in Midday meal and in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

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