Ludhiana district excels in implementation of Central, state schemes

Nitin Jain

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, September 4

Ludhiana has excelled in the implementation of the Central and state-sponsored government schemes underway in the district, the administration has confirmed.

While the district has achieved 106 per cent milestone in the expenditure and 107 per cent in the man-days under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 80 per cent of the allocated budget under the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee RURBAN Mission has already been spent. The achievement under Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s flagship Ghar Ghar Rozgar and Karobar Mission remained stupendous with 397 per cent registration of unemployed youths and 142 per cent registration of employers in the district so far, the officials have said.

Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan reviewed the progress of the government schemes in the district recently and asked the district officials to ensure proper and timely implementation of all such schemes to benefit all the eligible persons covered under them.

Sharing details, Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma told The Tribune here on Saturday that the district has made expenditure of Rs 35.12 crore against the target of Rs 33.02 crore, which accounts for 106.37 per cent, on various works under the MGNREGA scheme in all the 13 blocks till August.

While the annual expenditure target for current fiscal under the MGNREGA was fixed Rs 97.5 crore, the district had spent Rs 82.15 crore under the Central scheme during the previous financial year 2020-21.

Similarly, the district was able to provide 9,19,587 man-days (working days) to the registered workers under the MGNREGA scheme in all the 13 blocks against the target of 8,59,235 man-days till August, which accounted for 107.2 per cent.

The annual man-days target for current fiscal in the district was fixed at 25,37,174, while the district had generated 23,51,014 working days during the last financial year.

Under the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee RURBAN Mission, Ludhiana has so far covered 21 villages for undertaking the major projects, which include developing multiple business centres, cluster-level commercial space centres, lakes, skill development centres, multiple sports stadiums and providing sewerage facility.

Following a funding pattern of 70:30, wherein the state government bears 70 per cent and the Centre contributes 30 per cent share in the expenditure under the scheme, the district has so far spent Rs 80 crore, which was 80 per cent of the total allocated budget of Rs 100 crore under the Central scheme.

When it comes to Punjab’s ambitious self-employment generation scheme, “Ghar Ghar Rozgar and Karobar Mission”, Ludhiana has so far registered 9,521 unemployed youths, which accounted for 396.7 per cent of the registration target of 2,400.

Similarly, the district has registered 68 employers so far against the target of 48, accounting for 141.66 per cent achievement.

The district will be holding a mega job fair camp this month, wherein over 15,000 jobs are expected to be offered to the eligible unemployed youth.

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