By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The State Government is all set to launch the Integrated Basin Development and Livelihood Programme in the beginning of this financial year.
This was asserted during a workshop on the Integrated Basin Development and Livelihood Programme organised here at the Secretariat on Tuesday.
Several stakeholders including Cabinet Ministers, MLAs, MDCs, besides other stakeholders participated in the workshop.
Principal Secretary (Planning) RM Mishra, while presenting the details of the programme, said the programme will create multiple livelihood and ensure synergy in fund flow in the State.
The programme, which has nine missions under its fold, aims to create 60,000 entrepreneurs in 2012-13, and 4 lakh by the end of the 12th Five Year Plan Period.
Under this programme, the government plans to eradicate poverty by 2020.
During the workshop, many legislators, participating in the programme, raised their concerns saying that in the past many such programmes had failed to impact the targeted sections of the society.
Mawprem MLA Manas Chaudhuri, while taking part in the deliberations said, “The biggest challenge would be implementation of the programme at the ground level.”
According to Chaudhuri, the monitoring system should be effective right from the block level so that the programme will be a success.
He also suggested that the government should conduct a survey to ascertain the number of people who would be willing to partner in the implementation of the programme.
Chairman of the State Planning Board, Dr Donkupar Roy, stated that the programme should be implemented in a phase wise manner.
“Legislators and members of the three autonomous district councils should be involved in implementation of the programme,” he stated.
Chief Minister, Dr Mukul Sangma asserted that all the 39 blocks of the State would set up a cell to register prospective stakeholders for the programme.