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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Nitish govt performed badly: Union minister

Nitish govt performed badly: Union minister

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published Published on Sep 6, 2010   modified Modified on Sep 6, 2010


Union minister for rural development CP Joshi on Monday turned the table on the Nitish Kumar led-NDA government, saying that the state government had failed to bring into play good governance in the implementation of centrally-sponsored schemes, which resulted in the poor performance of the present dispensation.

Joshi, who on Sunday had first hand experience of the implementation of village road construction under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) and Prime Minister's Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in Chhapra, Siwan and Gopalganj districts, said that people did not have even simple information about job cards and schemes.

"They have right to know. It is the responsibility of the state government to inform them about schemes and work to be taken up," Joshi said, adding: "We are in the age of empowering people with information. We have right to information, employment, and now we are also getting into right to food. The state government has not done its job well."

Joshi said that the failure on this count had resulted in poor implementation of such centrally-supported ambitious schemes as MNREGA, PMGSY, Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF), Indira Awas Yojana (IAY), Swarna Jayanti Swarojgar Yojana (SJSY) and safe drinking water, which are aimed at creating rural connectivity and infrastructure as well as benefiting individual beneficiaries.

Joshi, who was accompanied by MP Lalchand Kataria from Rajasthan and state congress leaders, said: "We are going to people with positive frame of mind. We are not criticising anyone. The Congress will give real good governance to the people."

According to Joshi, the fund available with the state government under MNREGA during 2009-10 fiscal was Rs 2,358 crore, but the expenditure was only Rs 1,816 crore. Similarly, the expenditure stood at Rs 173 crore against the fund availability of Rs 493 crore under BRGF, while under IAY it was Rs 2,996 crore against available fund of Rs 4,484 crore, Rs 305 crore against the fund availability of Rs 506 crore under SJSY, and merely Rs 284 crore against the available fund of Rs 692 crore for providing safe drinking water.

Joshi said that the state government could create 38 mandays of work against the national average of 54 under MNREGA. "Fund allotment under MNREGA is demand-driven. If the state government can create more job opportunities and demands more fund, then the Centre allots the fund demanded," he said.

He also said that the state government had shown no capacity to create jobs or to utilise the fund. "The Centre is not discriminating," he said, adding that Bihar, like any other state, gets its share of fund under Gadgil formula. Besides, separate fund is allotted under centrally-sponsored schemes. "The government has not shown capacity to spend the allotted fund, including the demand-driven fund under MNREGA," Joshi said.


The Times of India, 7 September, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Nitish-govt-performed-badly-Union-minister-/articleshow/6509070.cms


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