Eighteen Odisha districts will get two Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows (PMRDFs) each to help the district administration
Balangir, Central govt. schemes, Deogarh, Extremist infested districts program, Gajapati, Ganjam, Jajpur, Kalahandi, Kandhamala, Keonjhar, Koraput, Malkangiri, Mayurbhanj, Nabarangpur, Nayagarha, Nuapada, Rayagada, RURAL & SPECIAL PROGRAMS, Sambalpur, Sonepur, Sundergarh April 7th. 2012, 11:18amA brief description of the program is given here and here. Following are some excerpts.
About PMRDF The Ministry of Home Affairs has identiï¬ed 60 districts of the country as Left Wing Extremism (LWE) districts. The Government of India has launched a special programme in these districts called Integrated Action Plan (IAP). On 13th of September, Union Minister of Rural Development Mr. Jairam Ramesh announced a scheme of PM’s Rural Development Fellows for deploying young professionals in each of the IAP districts to assist the District Collector. Mission PMRDFs will basically function as development facilitators, they will assist the Collector and his/her colleagues in each of the IAP districts and provide them with the necessary analysis of situations and how they should be handled. The fellows would actively pursue a district programming approach following three key strategies given below:
• Strengthen the district resource base for programming by finding ways of resourcing all the planned activities and rational budgeting.
• Establish or strengthen systems by exploring alternative ways of delivering services to reach the most deprived communities.
• Trigger processes which would support the changes that have been envisioned in this approach (e.g. village planning).
This would be complemented by a set of supportive actions such as building the capacity of district and block officials; triggering district-wide social mobilization processes particularly among the youth; achieve a ground swell of support and build strong relationships with the Panchayats.
The number of districts is now 78 instead of 60. Each of these districts will have two fellows. 18 of those districts are in Odisha. They are listed below. We welcome the 36 fellows that will be working in those districts in Odisha and will be happy to help them in any way possible.
April 12th, 2012 at 3:08 am
The State Govt should aggressively push for better rail connectivity in these districts in the next Plan period. Some railway line surveys like the Jeypore-Malkanagiri, Gunupur-Therubali, Berhampur-Phulbani-Sambalpur, Gopalpur-Rayagada and Gopalpur-Talcher etc have already been done while some other lines especially Khurda-Balangir and Bimalagarh-Talcher are facing time and cost overruns. These lines must become the focal points for our state. This aside, the demands for Tribal University at Phulbani and CAU at Bhawanipatna need to be aggressively pursued.
February 2nd, 2013 at 11:50 am
Please save the meghpal forest from the wood cutter/thief.