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Rural Development - Nagaland State Information Commission

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<strong>Information</strong> on Right To <strong>Information</strong> Version 05.11<br />

ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT:<br />

1. The following activities both under the centrally sponsored and the state<br />

sponsored schemes are implementing at present by the Department<br />

through the grass root level organization called “Village <strong>Development</strong><br />

Boards in <strong>Nagaland</strong>”.<br />

1. Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY)<br />

2. Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY)<br />

3. Grant in Aid to VDBs (Household Allocation)<br />

4. VDB Welfare Fund<br />

5. Fixed Deposit (FD) & Matching Cash Grants (MCG)<br />

6. Mahatma Gandhi National <strong>Rural</strong> Employment Guarantee<br />

Schemes (MGNREGS)<br />

7. Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF)<br />

8. Micro-Finance (MF)<br />

ACHIEVEMENT:<br />

With the fund provided to the villages by the Department, the<br />

Village <strong>Development</strong> Boards have achieved about 70% of the target for the<br />

infrastructures and their common needs.<br />

ANAL OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT:<br />

The Department of <strong>Rural</strong> <strong>Development</strong> had a humble beginning as a<br />

small cell called “Accounts & Audit Cell” attached to “The Planning &<br />

Coordination Department”, Govt. of <strong>Nagaland</strong> headed by an Account<br />

Officer on deputation brought from the Office of the Accountant General,<br />

Shillong, from time to time. The cell dealt with all kinds of accounts matters<br />

as Budget, Appropriation Accounts, Finance Accounts, Audit Objections,<br />

Internal Audit, and Control of Expenditure under Plan and Non-Plan of all<br />

Blocks.<br />

In the year 1978-79, the Cell was subsequently detached from the<br />

Planning & Coordination Department and was notified as a full-fledged<br />

Head of Department, “The Directorate of <strong>Rural</strong> <strong>Development</strong> Blocks” and<br />

placed under the administrative control of Special Secretary and Agricultural<br />

Production <strong>Commission</strong>er, <strong>Nagaland</strong> assisted by a Deputy Director on<br />

deputation from the Co-operation Department with skeleton staff.<br />

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