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Kerala to implement ADB-assisted MGP after public debate
Thiruvananthapuram, June 20: The Kerala cabinet tonight approved, in principle, the Asian Development Bank-assisted Modernising Government Programmes (MGP) which seeks to make the administration more effective and transparent, besides ensuring speedy delivery of developmental programmes to the targeted groups of population.
Thiruvananthapuram, June 20: The Kerala cabinet tonight approved, in principle, the Asian Development Bank-assisted Modernising Government Programmes (MGP) which seeks to make the administration more effective and transparent, besides ensuring speedy delivery of developmental programmes to the targeted groups of population.
Chief minister A K Antony told newspersons after a cabinet meeting that the government would implement the MGP, which proposed 93 initiatives, after public debate and a series of discussions. The proposal would be put on the government's website before July 1 to raise public debate.
Workshops for people's representatives and journalists would be held. Necessary changes would be incorporated on the basis of the proposals emerging in the public debate and discussions.
Antony said that the government would first implement those initiatives which sought to target the poorest sections of the society which had not so far been benefitted by any of the developmental programmes of the government. The next on the agenda would be those pertaining to health and local administration. He said that a survey conducted by the ''Kudumbhasri'' had brought out a startling revelation that 1.5 per cent of the poorer section of the society had not so far received any benefit from the government's developmental programmes.
The MGP sought to ensure assured level of basic public services to the poor and the marginalised, besides building an enabling environment for economic growth and employment generation, fiscal sustainability (both state and local self governments), enhancing effectiveness and efficiency of core government functions and building on decentralisation for efficient, effective and accessible local self governments.
The MGP would be implemented with the funding from ADB loan plus technical support from the Royal Netherlands Embassy. An estimated 5-6 million euro would be received as grant outside the state budget.
Bureau Report
Antony said that the government would first implement those initiatives which sought to target the poorest sections of the society which had not so far been benefitted by any of the developmental programmes of the government. The next on the agenda would be those pertaining to health and local administration. He said that a survey conducted by the ''Kudumbhasri'' had brought out a startling revelation that 1.5 per cent of the poorer section of the society had not so far received any benefit from the government's developmental programmes.
The MGP sought to ensure assured level of basic public services to the poor and the marginalised, besides building an enabling environment for economic growth and employment generation, fiscal sustainability (both state and local self governments), enhancing effectiveness and efficiency of core government functions and building on decentralisation for efficient, effective and accessible local self governments.
The MGP would be implemented with the funding from ADB loan plus technical support from the Royal Netherlands Embassy. An estimated 5-6 million euro would be received as grant outside the state budget.
Bureau Report