Rural Development - Nagaland State Information Commission
Rural Development - Nagaland State Information Commission
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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