Interface Meeting, Nokha, Rohtas Bihar

Adhikar project is being implemented in 18 villages of Nokha Block Rohtas district of Bihar. Buxar Diocesan Social Service Society & Navjeevan Development Centre, Sasaram has arranged an interface meeting with block official and Panchayati raj institutions members on 19 August 2012 at Gov. Block Office.  The main purpose of this interface meeting was to share with the concerned authorities of the Block as well as with the people’s representatives about the present status of the implementation of the schemes like MNREGA, ICDS, PDS and other social security schemes based on our survey findings. A detail plan was prepared how the community, PRI and Block officials will work together. This meeting created an atmosphere of co operation between the delivery system of the government and the people and NDC would function as a link between the two. There were 32 members from the PRI, most of them Ward members, both men and women present. In an atmosphere of peaceful sharing, several of the ward members expressed their ignorance or lack of good knowledge about the MNREGA scheme. All without exception admitted that there are lots of corrupt practices in the implementation of the scheme. The deserving ones do not get the benefit. Some of the ward members mentioned that they do not even know which schemes are sanctioned and which one is implemented. At the end of the sharing, NDC MNREGA Expert Ashok Kumar explained to them what our future plans are and asked their co operation to make the two entitlement schemes Right to Food and Right to Work an effective one.