Thursday, April 7, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Pucca roads, drains in SC, ST colonies under NREGA

 

http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/06/stories/2011040661860400.htm

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Pucca roads, drains in SC, ST colonies under NREGA

Special Correspondent

Convergence between NREGA and ACDP to benefit 1,500 ST/ST habitations
spread over 22 districts

HYDERABAD: The inclusion of rural connectivity as one of the
permissible categories of works under the National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) will be a boon for rural development in the
State, said Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy here on Tuesday. The
convergence between the NREGA and the Assembly Constituency
Development Programme (ACDP), will facilitate providing all-weather
connectivity to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other remote
habitations, including pucca internal roads in the SC/ST habitations.

Officials of the Rural Development department informed the Chief
Minister that the convergence would benefit 1,500 ST/ST habitations
spread over 22 districts in the State at a total cost of Rs.1,000
crore during 2011-12.

Public assets

This project would ensure that the State, apart from being the highest
user of NREGA funds, would be able to create durable public assets in
the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes colonies and aid their
development.

Better hygiene

Mr. Reddy hoped that construction of concrete drains in the low-lying
Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes colonies would improve overall
hygienic conditions of the areas and prevent outbreak of diseases like
malaria, cholera and diarrhoea in these areas.

Gram panchayats had been requesting the government to sanction
all-weather rural connectivity to hygienic conditions localities by
allowing convergence with other developments' programmes. They had
proposed to implement the internal roads in the localities by
completing formation, gravelling, and single-layer metalling along
with the pucca drains with NREGA funds, and later take up such roads
for cement concrete from constituency development funds. Such a
facility would transform the Dalit colonies for the better.

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