More pirctures on RSBY and ICDS workers street play..

MIC Food & Civil Supplies holds Paddy procurement meeting with all agencies and rice mills at Sanskriti Mancha Burdwan on 26th November 2012

Paddy procurement operations for Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2012-13 will start from the end of November 2012 in all paddy producing blocks of Burdwan district.

• We have already identified Paddy Purchase Centres (PPCs), spread throughout the district, and also tagged rice mills with PPCs. PPCs for direct purchase to be run by State agencies in addition to PPCs in association with PACS/PAMS (Cooperative Societies).
• This year we plan to set up large number of Direct PPCs where farmers can offer Paddy at Rs 1250 per quintals for common paddy and Rs 1280 per quintal for fine paddy and get payments on the spot through account payee cheques. Banks were directed to open zero balance accounts to the farmers who applied and special awareness programmes cum facilitation camps were organised in all blocks in the last two months.
• State agencies, WBECSC, NAFED, NCCF and Benfed will set up the PPCs at the locations already suggested by MLAs/ identified by blocks and make arrangement for Paddy purchase directly from farmers at MSP. List of all such proposed PPCs already shared with block authorities and others.
• At present, district authority has ensured available vacant go down space of 23000 MT of total storage capacity of 1.04 Lakh MT under State Govt. in Burdwan district. Information on stock and space availability is updated daily on www.bardhaman.gov.in web portal for transparency. There are plans to collect daily sms report on paddy purchase from each rice mill and track information through sms based management system.
• All the dues of PACS/ Rice mills for previous years also cleared.
• All necessary steps to ensure smooth procurement operations are being taken and we seek cooperation of all stakeholders in the greater interest of farmers.

• Burdwan district plans to procure about 3.92 Lakhs MT rice in this year after successful operations last year when 3.36 Lakhs MT was procured. We could ensure purchase of 7 Lakhs MT Paddy from farmers under Levy and CMR procurement operations and expect that quantum may increase to 8 Lakhs MT Paddy this year.

To discuss the strategy and review the preparedness of all agencies, tagged rice mills etc, a meeting will be held at Sanskriti Lok Mancha Burdwan at 11 am. MIC Food & Civil Supplies has consented to preside over the deliberations.

RSBY enrolment for MGNREGA workers started in Burdwan

Enrolment of MGNREGA workers under RSBY started today in Burdwan. Some photos sent by BDO Bhatar. 2.29 lakhs APL and total 8.3 lakhs families will be covered for annual free treatment of Rs 30000 per annum. Well done Team Burdwan. On first day itself 900 biometric cards issued on the spot. This time cards have 64 kb memory chip to store all informations of the family. Camps are running in Burdwan1, Burdwan2 and Bhatar blocks at present and will cover all blocks and municipalities by the end of January 2013.

 

Further funds for minorities in Burdwan

Additional funds for ITI at Bhatar at Rs 2.60 cr cost, 17 piped water supply schemes at Rs 5.12 cr in minority dominated areas of Burdwan sanctioned under MsDP.

Earlier, we got sanction of 150 Classrooms, 104 ICDS centers, 31 water supply schemes, ITI at Mangalkote at the cost of Rs 19 Cr in this year. Good funds for best performance in Burdwan.

All works to commence in one month.

MGNREGA Burdwan : Records man days of 190 lakhs, highest

MGNREGA has recorded highest man days till October 2012, breaking all the previous records. This year man days created by 5.97 lakhs families is 190 lakhs (April 2012 to October 2012) which is higher than last year achievement of 189 lakhs from April 2011 to March 2012.

• Average work per family engaged is 32 days. On an average each family of 5.97 families engaged under MGNREGA got more than Rs 4100 income out of MGNREGA, supplementing family household budget for better living.
• Burdwan district recorded 310 lakhs man days in last 12 months, the highest by any District.
• Expenditure of funds is Rs 345 crores as per reports received till 15th November since April 2012. Our annual expenditure last year was Rs 359 crores.
• At present new PIAs are not in the position to start new works as there is no funds available. We got Rs 58 crores immediately after Pujas, which is disbursed to PIAs for payment of pending wages and material costs. All pending bills could not be fully cleared out of this allotment. Request has been made to release further funds so as to start new works as soon as paddy harvesting is over.
• Burdwan becomes first district to enrol 2.29 lakhs APL families under RSBY where Rs 30000 per annum free treatment cost is available to each family.

Well done TEAM BURDWAN.