NEW DELHI: The Odisha govt has given the cold shoulder to the Centre's move to ship best IAS officials to evaluate the space in govt schemes in most backward districts and work with the local management to deal with them. The Centre has appointed 115 joint secretaries and extra secretaries as 'prabhari officials' for the identified districts.
"Odisha administration did not respond and the officials selected by the Centre were informally asked to wait. It was suggested the officials could visit to see how central government schemes such as rural employment guarantee scheme were working," said an official at the condition of anonymity.
PM Narendra Modi has called a gathering of the 115 prabhari officials on January 5. Top officers from all states also are likely to attend. The prabhari officials were asked to seek advice from their designated districts ahead of December 15, the day the iciness session of Parliament started.
"Officers who could not visit the states won't have anything to share. States that are not keen about this central initiative feel this is an indirect interference by New Delhi. They feel the decision was taken by the Centre unilaterally without consulting state governments and is against the spirit of cooperative federalism," some other official said.
The officers had been asked to seek advice from their designated districts no less than six occasions a yr. Khagaria, Begusarai and Katihar, all in Bihar, had been identified as probably the most backward districts and the best ranking a few of the 115 districts is Kiphire in Nagaland.
The officers had been asked to coordinate the efforts of the Centre and states by way of addressing specific building wishes. The districts had been identified according to signs of backwardness and incidence of Left-wing extremism. The parameters include deprivation with regard to landless families depending on guide labour, ante-natal care, stunting of kids beneath five years, elementary college dropout charge, hostile student-teacher ratio, un-electrified families, no rural highway connectivity and no get entry to to ingesting water.
"Odisha administration did not respond and the officials selected by the Centre were informally asked to wait. It was suggested the officials could visit to see how central government schemes such as rural employment guarantee scheme were working," said an official at the condition of anonymity.
PM Narendra Modi has called a gathering of the 115 prabhari officials on January 5. Top officers from all states also are likely to attend. The prabhari officials were asked to seek advice from their designated districts ahead of December 15, the day the iciness session of Parliament started.
"Officers who could not visit the states won't have anything to share. States that are not keen about this central initiative feel this is an indirect interference by New Delhi. They feel the decision was taken by the Centre unilaterally without consulting state governments and is against the spirit of cooperative federalism," some other official said.
The officers had been asked to seek advice from their designated districts no less than six occasions a yr. Khagaria, Begusarai and Katihar, all in Bihar, had been identified as probably the most backward districts and the best ranking a few of the 115 districts is Kiphire in Nagaland.
The officers had been asked to coordinate the efforts of the Centre and states by way of addressing specific building wishes. The districts had been identified according to signs of backwardness and incidence of Left-wing extremism. The parameters include deprivation with regard to landless families depending on guide labour, ante-natal care, stunting of kids beneath five years, elementary college dropout charge, hostile student-teacher ratio, un-electrified families, no rural highway connectivity and no get entry to to ingesting water.
Odisha snubs Centre's prabhari officers' plan
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