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By Our Special Correspondent
BANGALORE, JAN. 8. The State Government has sought an additional assistance Rs. 465 crores from the Centre to implement various ongoing rural development programmes in the State. The Chief Minister, N. Dharam Singh, made the request at a meeting with the Union Minister for Rural Development, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, here today. The Chief Minister later told presspersons that the Union Minister had assured that he would release adequate funds for the programmes.
Pending proposals
The Chief Minister requested Mr. Raghuvansh Prasad to clear pending proposals with regard to drinking water projects. The proposals included a perspective plan of Rs. 1892.52 crores to provide safe drinking water to all the 56,683 villages and hamlets, approval of the Rs.11.4-crore action plan for 100 per cent coverage of rural schools with water and sanitation facilities, and the release of Rs. 75 crores under the Swajaladhara Scheme. The Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, H.C. Mahadevappa, urged the Union Minister to set aside 50,000 houses for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes under the Indira Awas Yojana. The Minister of State for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation, B. Sathyanarayana, sought an additional allocation of Rs. 200 crores to upgrade 2,000 km of rural roads.
`No shortage of funds'
Mr. Raghuvansh Prasad held discussions with officials of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj and Rural Water Supply and Sanitation departments. He said that there was no shortage of funds for implementing rural development schemes. But he declined to specify the quantum of Central assistance to the State for the development projects.
Estimate revised
The Centre had revised its earlier estimate of Rs. 7,000 crores for the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana to over Rs. 1.28 lakh crores. If required the funds would be raised through loans from the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank, he said. Drinking water would be accorded top priority and the Centre was committed to spending money for providing drinking water and sanitation in all schools by March 2005. He would also revive the Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission. He said that efforts would be made to ensure a minimum supply of 40 litres of water per capita through execution of Centrally-sponsored schemees.
State lauded
He lauded the State's efforts in its rural development programmes and said that the State's model should be replicated by others. Ten States were lagging behind in rural development, he said. To a question on the State Government's plea for financial assistance to the 83 drought-hit taluks, Mr. Raghuvansh Prasad said that the Centre had already released Rs. 2.4 lakh tonnes of foodgrains.
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