RATLAM: Post demonetisation, there is a need to initiate maximum work in villages to provide employment under Mahatma Gandhi Rashtriya Gramin Raojgar Guarantee Yojana (MGNREGS), as people, who migrated to the adjoining states for work, have shifted back to their respective villages in search of employment, said Member of Parliament, Kantilal Bhuria while addressing a meeting of Disha Samiti held here on Tuesday.
Bhuria, who presided over the meeting, further emphasised that names of all the eligible persons should be enlisted for the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and the existing list should be corrected accordingly. He also raised the issue of villagers receiving abnormal electricity bills and demanded that farmers should not be hassled to visit the district headquarter to apply for electricity transformer.
District collector B Chandrashekhar in his address informed that list of beneficiaries under PM Awas Yojana has been sent to the concerned authorities and as per target, all the beneficiaries will be provided with pucca houses by 2022.
CEO of district panchayat informed in the meeting that works of the construction of 200 talabs (ponds) and deepening of the existing water bodies are getting started and enough employment would be generated for the needy.
Mayor Dr Sunita Yarde was among others present in the meeting.
“List of beneficiaries under PM Awas Yojana has been sent to the concerned authorities and as per target, all the beneficiaries will be provided with pucca houses by 2022.”
B Chandrashekhar, District collector
Training camp on cashless transaction held
Janpad panchayat organised a camp to train officials on cashless transaction for Digital India in two phases. According to information, those who participated in the two phases of the camp will now impart training to the panch and sarpanchs on 26 January, 2017.
