Kohima, Nov 09: Nagaland has created a centralised
monitoring cell for effective monitoring of implementation of
all centrally sponsored schemes (CSS), whether they are routed
through state planning department or DRDA.
The newly-created cell, under state planning and
coordination department, will monitor all the CSS which are
directly routed to districts from central ministries without
passing through planning department, deputy chairman of state
planning board Neiba Kronu said.
The monitoring cell, under the supervision of the deputy
chairman of the state planning board, has been authorised to
collect information and data from implementing departments,
agencies or officials and hold discussions to guide the
implementing agencies of CSS programmes.
The state planning and coordination department, Kronu
said, usually monitors only listed projects or schemes in the
government memo but many schemes are implemented at district
levels where the Union ministries issue cheques directly to
respective districts or NGOs.
Even as central funds go directly to districts or NGOs,
the implementing departments must be ready to submit detailed
status report about such centrally sponsored schemes, he said.
The deputy chairman said the monitoring cell has been set
up for effective monitoring of all centrally funded schemes as
urged by Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio.
Kronu pointed out that even if the funds are directly
routed to the districts and NGOs, the state government is
accountable and answerable to the people under the RTI Act for
all such schemes.
Bureau Report
First Published: Sunday, November 09, 2008, 00:00