Bardhaman District launched special web page on Maati Utsav 2013

Open www.bardhaman.gov.in and clock on icon MAATI UTSAV.

Maati Utsav Panagarh 2013, some publicity boards

Some of the lines for Maati Utsav at Birudiha Panagarh from 9th Feb to 15th Feb 2013.

 

MGNREGA Burdwan : updates as on 31st January 2013 and some facts on present fund position

Fund Position

• Funds available Rs 453 crores, out of which Rs 437 crores were released in 2012-13 financial year.
• Rs 54 crores were released in last week of January 2013 only, so Rs 399 crores were available for expenditure as in first week of January 2013.
• Fund released to GPs/ PIAs is Rs 445 crores till 31st January 2013 and rest is allotted for administrative expenditure on staff at block, GPs and district plus cost of implementation.
• Funds utilised as per provisional MPR reports is Rs 415 crores, which may be on higher side once actual reports are collected on 6th February 2013.
• Funds reflected in online MIS on www.nrega.nic.in is Rs 393 Crores against uploading of Rs 415 crores.
• It may be seen that funds now released are uploaded immediately on making payments against the ongoing works and material bills of works completed earlier. There is hardly any funds actually available for ongoing works but MIS shows around Rs 60 crores as it's either under payment process or not reflected after upload. This is more than 90 % of available funds, much higher than bench mark of 60 % for next allotment.
• This creates an impression that district has this fund for new works but in reality it is already spent and there is very small fund available at GPs for making wage payments of ongoing works.

Employment generation

• Man days to be generated as per Annual Labour Budget is 227 lakhs
• Man days projection till 31st January 2013 is 196 Lakhs
• Man days already generated 212 lakhs as on 31st January 2013
• Man days as shown in MIS on www.nrega.nic.in is 180 Lakhs in 2012-13 financial year and 24 lakhs in 2011-12 year as payments were made in the current year. That means, 8 lakhs is yet to be reflected in the MIS.
• Now, the funds of Rs 453 crores made available this year can generate Rs 453 crores/Rs 226.67 man days i.e.199.85 lakhs. Balance Labour Budget available to district is only 27 lakhs for which only Rs 61.20 crores may be further required to be released to the district.
• It is obvious from the above calculations that Labour Budget Proposed by the district at 240 lakhs must be allowed and spill over labour payments of 24 lakhs man days for 2011-12 must be allotted additional in the current year so as to get additional budgetary allocation of Rs 54.40 crores in the current approved budget of Rs 515 crores to create 227 lakhs man days.
• District can achieve man days of 300 lakhs only if further funds of Rs 12 crores are made available before March 2013.
• All blocks have been advised to take up works against sanction of Programme Officers and after confirming approved budgetary allocations as no spill over liability should be encouraged.

Burdwan district incurred highest ever expenditure by any district in the country in any financial year since inception and also disbursed highest ever funds on wages to create employment generation in the current year covering maximum families in rural areas. We hope to get adequate funds to meet the present requirement during the peak season of February to June 2013.

DLMC on Paddy procurement to be held at 12 noon on 4th February 2013

Next meeting of DLMC will be held on 4th February 2013 at 12 noon at DM Office Burdwan.

Here is the updated status in brief as on 31st Jan 2013 - Now, 76 Paddy purchase centres are functioning in Burdwan district in addition to paddy purchase by 393 rice mills. So far, 685 camps have been organised.

As per information received total paddy purchased so far is 1.8 lakhs MT.

• CMR and Levy rice received is 53926 MT in go downs of FCI and State, further 37449 MT enforcement certificates issued to Rice Mills and CMR agencies for the ready rice which is to be delivered.

• CMR agencies supplied 12985 MT rice against 32671 MT rice converted out of CMR Paddy and now they will be asked to expedite conversion and EC as conversion to rice is only 40 % of paddy purchased by agencies.
• Payment related issues with CMR agencies and FCI will also be discussed thoroughly so as to ensure regular and timely payments.
• Go down space is available and issues related to movement of rice will be discussed.
• Vigilance teams from district intensively visiting rice mills to enforce purchase from farmers at Rs 1250 per Quintal paddy and making payment through account payee cheques.
• Action initiated against few rice mills violating norms like false muster rolls with non existent farmers and payments not made to farmers as per norms. Block teams will now intensify vigil on rice mils.

• All rice mills told not to refuse paddy offered by farmers. It will again be reviewed tomorrow.
• Muster rolls of rice mills and PPCs are being verified physically at door steps to ensure that paddy purchase is done properly.
• This year, fixd location PPCs in large number is found to be very helpful and acceptable to farmers. Govt purchase officers/ agencies are making payments against delivered paddy on the spot after verifications.
• Paddy purchased is converted to rice and endeavour is taken to make payments of bills of rice mills/ CMR agencies immediately on delivery of rice to FCI/ State go downs.
• It is clearly directed that all Levy rice (Rice oout of Paddy purchased by rice mills directly) to be delivered to FCI go downs in order to move rice outside Burdwan district/ State for price stabilisation. CMR rice (against paddy purchased at PPCs/ Govt agencies) to be delivered to State as well as FCI go downs as per space management.

Burdwan at top in Rural Housing, IAY and committed to complete houses by March 2013

Readers may recall my earlier posts in November 2012 when performance of the district at the time of claim for next installment for IAY was published. I am reproducing the same once more for recalling the position.

"Burdwan claims 2nd instalment of Rural Housing IAY, 14185 houses to BPL

IAY is the most important Rural Housing Scheme for BPL families in Rural areas which provides pucca house @ Rs 45000 per house plus sanitary laterines @ Rs 3200 from Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan. In 2010-11 and 2011-12 years we constructed 25838 houses in 31 blocks.

• This year we sanctioned 14185 houses and released Rs 3193 lakhs out of which Rs 2740 lakhs has been utilised till September 2012.

• District will get another Rs 34 crores as 2nd instalment within this month as our claim has been accepted by Govt of India. 2nd instalment is released on utilisation of 60 % of the available funds."

Now, my attention has been drawn to the latest physical and financial reports circulated in the District Vigilance Monitoring Committee meeting where probably it is told that about 14747 houses sanctioned in 2012-13 and 6600 completed in 2012-13.

• It is clarified that 14747 number of houses have been sanctioned out of first installments of Central and State share released to district at the begining of financial year and subsequently district placed claims for next installments as reported herein.
• We got 2nd installment central share sanctioned on 25th December 2012 and funds credited in our accounts in January 2013 which has been released to bank accounts of beneficiaries through Blocks directly.
• It must be noted that IAY funds are released to BPL families in two equal installment of Rs 22500 each. Obviuosly, first installment of Rs 22500 was released to all 14747 beneficiaries between June to August 2013 and second and final installment is released now in January 2013 to complete the houses as per norms.
• Houses shown completed so far are certainly the houses completed in this year including ongoing works of last year. Some houses of current year must also have been completed but certainly we should not expect beneficiaries to complete the houses of current year without both the installments fully released to them.

Performance of the Burdwan district is one of the best in the State and among top few districts in the country. We are hopeful of completing all houses in next two months and may get addtional funds like previous year.