PHDMA to survey implementation of govt schemes in panchayats

Bhubaneswar, Sep 2: The Odisha government will reach the grassroots level to review the progress of the implementation of different schemes aimed to eradicate poverty from the state. The state government has initiated a project in this regard that will be launched by the Poverty and Human Development Monitoring Agency (PHDMA). A l l t h e 6 , 7 9 4 – g r a m panchayats will be covered by October 2, 2023. In the first phase, the initiative will bring out a governance atlas of 4,056 panchayats by March 5, 2023. Under the project, PHDMA teams will visit each panchayat to review and monitor the implementation of government schemes and how people are getting benefited.
The teams will be assigned to prepare reports on the schemes that are actually working for the people of
Odisha, what should be worked on and what are a s p i r a t i o n s o f t h e beneficiaries through immersing with them and listening to them. The survey, known as the governance atlas, will track access, availability, and
utility of priority schemes, projects, programs, and benefits at household, individual, cohort, sectoral,
and institutional levels. The governance atlas will also capture people’s aspirations going to all gram panchayats and put in place a robust redressal mechanism. Member secretary of PHDMA Roopa Roshan Sahoo said that the project is a way to participate in the processes of poverty eradication towards human development through listening, immersive observations, and video graphic collection of grievances of people from the ground. Notably, the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government has taken the massive initiative to eradicate poverty in the state
which has helped to reduce poverty to 29 percent from 63 percent. The government has further aimed to reduce poverty to 10 percent in the state during the next five years and the PHDMA has been playing a great role in this drive.

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