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Raghuvansh for better monitoring of NREGS

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh has said that the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) needed to be monitored closely by the people’s representatives.

The people’s participation and monitoring by the elected representatives will make it a highly successful programme of the Government of India to make the dreams of ‘Bharat Nirman’ a reality, the Minister said during an interactive session with a group of MPs from various States.

He said that the programme has already been implemented in 330 districts. Mr. Singh said that the District Level Vigilance Committees were doing a good job for awareness generation and ensuring the transparency and accountability of rural development programmes.

The Minister asked the Members of Parliament to play a role in successful implementation of all the poverty eradication programmes being implemented by the Government in rural areas. He laid special emphasis on the NREGS, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) and Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP).

The MPs who met the Minister were from Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan. These group interactions have been started by the Ministry of Rural Development for close interaction with the MPs in separate batches to ensure effective implementation of rural development schemes through greater participation of elected representatives, according to S.M. Khan, official spokesperson of the Rural Development Ministry. The objective of these meetings is to apprise the MPs of provisions in the rural development schemes.

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