Question : COORDINATION OF DIFFERENT AGENCIES FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT



(a) whether the Government has adopted various strategies to co-ordinate different agencies to expedite rural development;

(b) if so, the details thereof; and

(c) the problems being faced by the Government in this regard ?

Answer given by the minister


MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI SURYAKANTA PATIL)

(a)to (c) The Ministry of Rural Development implement and monitor its programmes through the State Governments, District Rural Development Agencies/Zilla Parishads and other implementing agencies. The DRDA/Zilla Parishads coordinate with the various line departments at the district level in preparing action plan as per the available resources and need of the district and monitors the implementation of rural development programmes through various existing monitoring mechanism stipulated in the programme guidelines. The general problems in the implementation of some schemes are mainly on account of delay in preparation of shelf of projects, shortage of officials at different levels, geographical locations of districts and delay in release of matching share by a few States etc.