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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Naxal fight takes development route

Naxal fight takes development route

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published Published on Jul 10, 2011   modified Modified on Jul 10, 2011
-The Times of India
 
Maoist-affected districts across the country might have seen years of neglect by successive governments, but a new Central scheme - Integrated Action Plan (IAP) - under the UPA-II is fast filling up the 'critical gap' in those 'deficit zones' through taking up a number of development projects.

As many as 67,072 basic infrastructure projects across 60 districts in nine states have been taken up at Rs 2,740 crore in the past seven months ever since the IAP was launched by the Centre in last December.

The scheme, jointly supervised under the Planning Commission and the Union home ministry, is being implemented with 100% block grant of Rs 25 crore and Rs 30 crore per district during the year 2010-11 and 2011-12, respectively. The allocated funds are placed at the disposal of a district-level committee, comprising collector, SP and district forest officer, which identifies and implements the development and infrastructure projects.

By cutting down red tape and fixing responsibility with the district administration, the IAP could see implementation of various kinds of developmental works ranging from getting scooter ambulance for villages to setting up anganwadi centres, school buildings, heath centres and drinking water facilities.

Buoyed by the freedom to spend money, the district administrations in many states have come out with unique solutions to meet local aspirations.

Scooter ambulance to take patients to nearby road innovated by Bastar district (Chhattisgarh) and mobile ambulances for minor operations on the way to a nearby hospital by Ghadchiroli administration (Maharashtra) have delivered to win back people's confident in government.

Other districts too want to replicate the unique proposal to beat the handicap of road connectivity in these far-flung areas. Earlier patients were transported in carts, leading to causalities before reaching hospital. Many districts in naxal-hit districts of Bihar have come out with a unique proposal for generating power rice husk with support of the Centre's non-renewal energy ministry.

In backward areas of Chhattisgarh, district authorities are trying to provide solar electricity to the villagers without any regular power connection.

What has worked wonders are flexibility in utilizing money and fixing of accountability at local level of the district committee, which is responsible for conceptualization and implementation of works while considering the specific needs of the district.

"To speed up the development process in these backwards areas, it was decided to give money directly to the district," said Plan panel member secretary Sudha Pillai, who is keeping a close watch on development works in these areas and holds periodic review meeting with collectors through video-conferencing.

As far as 'physical progress' of the 67,072 projects under IAP in nine states during December 2010-June 2011 is concerned, Maharashtra tops the chart having completed 69.49% of the works, followed by Uttar Pradesh (68.41%), West Bengal (40.59%), Chhattisgarh (32.9%), Orissa (30.63%), Andhra Pradesh (20.73%), Jharkhand (19.13%), Bihar (12.92%) and Madhya Pradesh (7.89%).

The latest Planning Commission data shows that the maximum funding under the IAP schemes went into setting up of school buildings (10,630) followed by drinking water and drainage facilities (10,445 works), electric lighting (10,210), anganwadi centres (9,757) and rural roads (6,083).

Along with ensuring basic services, the Plan panel has been pushing hard to ensure mobile and telephone connectivity in these districts. It also lobbied hard to get norms relaxed for carrying out developmental works in these districts, including allowing diversion of up to five hectares of forest land without approval and allowing construction of bridges up to 75 meters under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana - instead of 50 meters in other districts - and providing subsidy of up to Rs 48,000 for construction of homes for the poor under the Indira Vikas Yojana.

The Times of India, 10 July, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Naxal-fight-takes-development-route/articleshow/9167593.cms


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