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 ApnaBundelkhand.com, New Delhi: Three months after the Union Cabinet
cleared a Rs 7,266-crore package for Bundelkhand, the politically
charged backward region comprising districts of UP and Madhya Pradesh,
has still not received a single paisa of the targeted finances as flow
of funds has got entangled in administrative red-t
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Sitting in her hut in Soopa village
in Mahoba district, Bundelkhand, eight-year-old Juni says she wants to
learn French. She’d like to thank her "godmother”, French journalist
Anne Marie Duthu, in her native tongue. "She can’t speak Hindi, so I
want to learn French and tell her that she means so much to me and my
family,” says little Juni. After visiting the family last year, Duthu
decided to fund the education of Juni and her siblings till the time
they are able to support their widowed mother, Kapoori Devi.
Thirty-eight-year-old
Kapoori Devi’s life was shattered two years ago, when her husband
Brijlal, 45, committed suicide on November 25, 2007, by hanging himself
from a tree—he had failed to repay debts to a moneylender and his
earnings as a farm labourer could not support his family. "I was left
behind with five children to take care of. I wanted to end my life
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 ApnaBundelkhand.com, New Delhi:To provide irrigation facilities to the drought-prone Bundelkhand region in central India, the Centre has decided to bear bulk of the costs involved.
The Planning Commission and ministry of water resources last week
decided to grant special category status to the impoverished region,
comprising nine districts of Uttar Pradesh and 15 districts in Madhya
Pradesh, for the irrigation projects.
The state governments can now seek 90 per cent grant assistance from the Centre to develop irrigation projects under the accelerated irrigation benefit scheme.
The remaining 10 per cent will be loan. Typically, such a funding from the Centre is in form of 70 per cent loan and 30 per cent grant. Only hill states have been given special category status so far.
In 2009, Congress general se
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ApnaBundelkhand.com, Lucknow: To open up job avenues for the youths of Bundelkhand region, State Minister for Rural Development Daddu Prasad has asked his department to take the educated rural youth on board in the technical structure of schemes like Swarnjayanti Grameen Swarozgar Yojna (SGSY) and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS).
The department has also been asked to train the youth in tasks pertaining to the monitoring and implementation of these schemes.
The decision is an extension of Chief Minister Mayawati’s announcement made in Jhansi on January 29, 2008, seeking the provision of vocational training to the unskilled educated youth throughout the state to make them job-ready.
"After the chief minister announced that unemployed youths will be turned into skilled labourers, we started vocational training programmes, with Bundelkhand being our focus area. Now, we have over 10,00
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ApnaBundelkhand.com, New Delhi: Bundelkhand region is spread in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
Development works are going on there funded by the Central Government.
In Madhya Pradesh there are six Bundelkhandi districts - Datia,
Chhattarpur, Panna, Damoh, Tikamgarh and Sagar. For these the Centre has
already sanctioned Rs 3760 crore. Out of this the balance amount of Rs
2160 crore would be spent in the next three years. The basic principle
of development is that if there is infrastructure, development would
occur. Towns and cities came up only there where there are rivers, lakes
or other sources of water. Land, water and electricity are most
necessary to develop any area.
The main problem faced by the
Bundelkhand region is continuous shortage of rainfall. Drought is common
in this area due to which farming is severely affected. As there are no
other employment opportunities the populace shifts to green pastures.
During the last four years shortage of rainfall
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 ApnaBundelkhand.com, New Delhi: I solicit your personal intervention in the matter to ensure that
para-wise comments on the reports of Sanjay Dixit (member of Central
Employment Guarantee Council who’s come out with a scathing report on
the implementation of NREGA in Uttar Pradesh) and pending complaints
are attended on priority basis.
— Rita Sharma, union secretary (now retired), rural development, in
a letter to Atul Kumar Gupta, chief secretary, Uttar Pradesh, on
January 13.
You are aware that under Section 27 (2) of the NREG Act there are
serious consequences to reports of prima facie misuse of funds.
— Amita Sharma, joint secretary, union ministry of rural
development, in a letter to Srikrishna, principal secretary, rural
development department, UP, on November 30.
A one-man fact-finding committee has found serious irregularities in
the implementation of t
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ApnaBundelkhand.com, NEW DELHI: Politically charged
Bundelkhand — the backward region which has been turned into a
battlefield
between UP CM Mayawati and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi —
will
be granted special category status, meaning Centre will meet 90% of the
cost of
irrigation projects for the drought-hit region.
Sources said a
high-level committee headed by Planning Commission secretary Sudha
Pillai has
approved the proposal to grant special category status at par with
drought-prone
areas, implying that districts in the region will get 90% grant
assistance from
Centre under Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP).
With
the adoption of 14 districts of UP and MP under AIBP, the move will help
in
mitigating water scarcity in the water-scarce region which is wholly
dependent
on monsoon because of a poor irrigation network. With the fresh move,
Bundelkhand region will be treated at par with areas covered under
Drought Prone
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ApnaBundelkhand.com,LUCKNOW: Over the past eight years,
Bhure Kol has added two rooms to his house, replaced its thatched roof
with
corrugated iron sheets and bought a second—hand moped. The illiterate
tribal from Masaura, Lalitpur in Bundelkhand owes his prosperity to the
rich
herbal haul made by the family of six.
The demand for ware on sale
— Ashwagandha (withania somnifera) known popularly as Indian ginseng,
White Museli (chiorophytum barivillianum) touted as desi Viagra, and
other
assorted prized herbs has gone up manifold. Therefore the market is
growing,
price is good and most importantly buyers turn up at his doorsteps
saving him a
business trip out of the quiet little hamlet to Jhansi.
A hotbed of
intense political activity, Bundelkhand is fast turning into a favourite
hunting
ground for big players in the alternative medicine. The region, in
league with
Orissa and Chattisgarh with its abundant medicinal plant produce, is
equally
vulnerable due to e
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ApnaBundelkhand.com, Bhopal: The Bundelkhand Package of
Rs 7266 crore sanctioned by the Government of India for the development
of Bundelkhand region falling under Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh
includes Madhya Pradesh's share of Rs 3760 crore. Of this share, Rs 2160
crore are earmarked for the schemes under implementation from earlier. A
total of Rs 1600 crore would be received as additional amount for six
districts of Madhya Pradesh. This amount is to be spent in three years.
Further,
these funds would be spent on programmes pertaining to watershed area
management, irrigation, agriculture, animal husbandry, horticulture and
forest.
The information to this effect was given at a meeting on
Bundelkhand Package chaired by the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan
at the Rajya Mantralaya, here today. The Chief Secretary, Avani Vaish
and Principal Secretary, Finance, GP Singhal also participated in the
meeting.
Addressing the meeting, the Chief Minister Chouha
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 ApnaBundelkhand.com, Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister
Shivraj Singh Chouhan has directed his
officials to seek clarifications from the central government on the
Rs.7,266 crore Bundelkhand package, an official said Tuesday.
The package was announced last year for the development of
Bundelkhand region spread over Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. "Several points in the package are not clear even today, though only
two months in the current financial year are left. During this period,
proposals are to be sent to different union ministries for sanction,"
Chouhan said while chairing the meeting Monday. The six districts of Madhya Pradesh which fall in Bundelkhand region
are Sagar, Damoh, Chhatarpur, Panna, Tikamgarh and Datia. The package
has to be implemented in three years, including the current fiscal.
"During a meeting convened here specially to dis
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