MBDA asked to give details of 6 months’ activities

SHILLONG: The State Planning Board has asked the Meghalaya Basin Development Authority (MBDA) to provide details of its activities in the last six months.
Sources said the Board wants to know the amount invested in MBDA and the authority’s success rate. The basin authority has been asked to submit the report on Thursday.
Under MBDA, the Integrated Basin Development and Livelihood Promotion Programme, which aimed to put the state on a higher growth trajectory and improve the quality of life of all citizens, is one of the much talked about schemes of the previous Congress-led government.
Earlier, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma had maintained that the new government would not discard the initiative.
He had said on several occasions that it was a government process and the new team would try to improve the initiatives of the previous government and review the impact of such programmes before taking a final call on discarding.