Workshop on Bidhayak Elaka Unnayan Prokalpa (BEUP) with MLAs of district at BDA Conference hall today

BEUP is one of the most popular state funded programme available to MLAs for area development. We conducted trainings to elected MLAs last year where all the salient guidelines of BEUP, procedure for recommendation, sanction and implementation of the schemes were explained in detail. Recently, it is decided to organise one day workshop for exchange of views as regards to actual difficulties faced by MLAs in selection of schemes, unit cost, implementation and other issues involved so as to help them. In today's workshop nine MLAs and six MLA representatives attended.

Main issues clarified today are :-

1. Schemes within annual limit of RS 60 lakhs can be submitted by each MLA to DPLO at the beginning of each year. They may consult BDO office to ascertain that the same scheme is not included under any other funding scheme to avoid duplicacy and also verify the feasibility of the scheme recommended.
2. Unit cost of schemes must be as per the model estimates prepared by the State Govt departments in case of ICDS centres (Rs 6.90 lakhs or Rs 4.14 lakhs if land is inadequate), ACR in schools (Rs 4.04 lakhs), Drinking water Tubewell (Rs 1.05 lakhs for Mark II or as per depth), community hall (Rs 5 lakhs plus as per area) etc. Small funding for community hall, classroom etc below model estimated to be discouraged as no feasible building is possible with that cost estimates.
3. Work order copies to be furnished to MLAs by executing agencies in addition to monthly reports of progress being furnished by district authority at present.
4. Ambulances of available models of Maruti, Tata Max or Mahindra at the rates fixed by DGS&D only to be allowed to purchased by district authority and no request for passenger vehicle to be allowed.
5. Land particulars on which the construction/ building work is to be done must be furnished with recommendation letter to minimise the time of sanction. In case of lands not belonging to Govt, written NOC and Agreement of land owner/ organisation/ institution to be done with district authority. No fund can be sanctioned without land agreement with district authority.
6. NGO/ Society/ club schemes are allowed only if the organisation has valid society registration for minimum three years, audited accounts and not related to MLA.

Interaction was mutually useful

Website of Burdwan District Sports Association launched today

Reconstituted Executive Committee of Burdwan Sports Association endeavoured to strengthen team spirit and collective efforts to improve Sports development in Burdwan. Today, at Radharani Stadium office of BDSA, website of the Association has been launched for providing information to public on sports facilities, coaching and other activities of the apex sports body in the district. Address is www.burdwandsa.com.

 

Task force for improvement of sports infrastructure at Spandan Football Stadium has shared their reports with BDSA. Cricket Coaching centre at Spandan has been approved today and likely to be operational immediately after Pujas. Fund of Rs ten lakhs announced by District Magistrate & Chairman of Spandan to implement the recommendations of the task force. Lets hope, Sports to get boost in Burdwan in coming days.

Week long camp to open zero balance bank accounts at all Sub divisional HQ from 10th to 16th September - State function at Kalna

Paddy procurement procedures have been modified by the State Govt for greater transparency and effective implementation of Minimum Support Price to farmers.

The major additions to the policy, Inter Alia are payment of price by rice millers and CMR agencies through account payee cheque only to the genuine farmers at rates not below MSP,

2. Levy rice to be procured from rice millers after verifying the claim that paddy has been purchased from genuine farmers at the rates not below MSP to stop influx of outside state/ region paddy purchased at lower prices and

3. Quick payments through legal sources on supply of paddy immediately and paddy procurement camps at Sub block level facilitated by local administration.

 

In order to extend benefits of good policy decisions of the Govt, it is felt that all the farmers without any bank account in their name should have bank account for transactions of the paddy sale and better management of camps with coordinating efforts of local bodies, cooperatives and administration. State Govt has decided to open week long awareness camp cum help counters at Court compounds of all Sub divisions from 10th September 2012 to 16th September 2012 in all the districts of West Bengal. In these camps at Burdwan Court More, Kalna RMC, Katwa SDO Office, Durgapur SDO Office and Asansol SDO office will remain open from 10 am to 5 pm daily.

 

There will be counters of major banks, Food & Civil Supplies, Agriculture department and administration from where leaflets on paddy procurement, blank forms and guidelines to open zero balance accounts by banks, blank applications for KCC and general counselling on paddy procurement and bank account opening to be given to farmers visiting the camps. It is expected that all the farmers attending these camps will get the opportunity to open zero balance account in a week after application to banks as agreed by Bankers in the last District Level meeting. KCC applications to all needy farmers can also be collected through these camps.

 

Later, such facilities will be extended up to Branch and block level to cover all the left out farmers. Hope with these efforts, more and more farmers can get real benefits of initiatives of the State.