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Aiyar urges tech experts to share skills with panchayats
Our Bureau
New Delhi
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Oct. 10
THE Minister for Panchayati Raj, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar, on Monday urged technical experts to share their skills with panchayats so that they could effectively monitor the implementation of projects in the rural areas.
The Minister was speaking at a function for signing of memorandum of understanding between the Ministry and the Institution of Engineers here.
Under the MoU, the Institution of Engineers would participate in the capacity building of panchayats in a variety of technical and managerial skills relating to engineering. A task force has been set up to oversee the implementation of the project in six States — Rajasthan, Gujarat, Uttaranchal, West Bengal, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
Mr Aiyar said imparting engineering knowledge to village panchayats would enable them to effectively control the quality of construction work and prevent corruption and make the agencies responsible for the projects more accountable. The social auditing participation would cut down red tapism and give people the power to identify the individual responsible for any fault in the construction work in villages.
He said two rural business hubs have been set up in the country in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry. One of them is in Uttaranchal through public-private-panchayat participation in collaboration with ITC, while another is in Haryana where a London-based oil company would buy and market bio-diesel produced there. About 50 such rural business hubs are going to come up out across the country, he said.
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