Odisha Cabinet Approves “Ama Odisha Nabin Odisha” Scheme

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has decided to roll out the “Ama Odisha Nabin Odisha” scheme for taking up measures to augment rural infrastructure leading to accelerated growth as well as to Promote, Preserve and Protect Jagannath culture and tradition of the State.

The State Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has approved the scheme.

“The State Government have modified the guidelines of the earlier intervention “Ama Gaon Ama Bikash” by giving it a new dimension in the form of “Ama Odisha Nabin Odisha” under State Plan to make it effective from the Financial Year 2023-24 for taking up measures to augment rural infrastructure leading to accelerated growth as well as to Promote, Preserve and Protect Jagannath culture and tradition of the State”, the Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water Department said.

The vision of the intervention is to transform Odisha to modern and aspirational Odisha retaining the essence, soul and spirit of Jagannath culture and spreading over to the world. Odisha is the Land that gave Jagannath Culture to the world and a culture that is based on universal love, service and equality.

The main objective of the scheme is to provide missing links to the existing small and essential projects and development of infrastructure. Also achieving empowerment of women, youth, bridging critical gap in education, digital and sports facilities, such as improvement of infrastructure for primary education and also providing missing links to the existing development infrastructure, construction, modernization and expansion works, creating additional facilities for Mission Shakti Groups at GP level, bridging critical gaps at GP level to improve rural areas by way of providing urban facilities, development of sports facilities for the youth, providing banking facilities and improvement of digital access in terms of mobile connectivity, optical fibre connectivity, WiFi and internet connectivity

 

There is budget provision of Rs. 4000.00 Crore under the scheme from the State Budget. The scheme will cover all Gram Pa nchayats in each Block of the State with entitlement of Rs. 50.00 lakh. The project cost shall be between Rs. 2.50 lakh to Rs.10.00 lakh. The projects under the scheme shall be suggested/ recommended by local people/community organizations/public representatives and other stake holders.

The consolidated G.P. wise project list of the Block shall be submitted to PR & DW Department with signatures of Collector and President, Zilla Parishad of the district for due examination and approval of Government.

The consolidated G.P. wise project list of the Block shall be submitted to PR & DW Department with signatures of Collector and President, Zilla Parishad of the district for due examination and approval of Government.

The Panchayat Samiti shall execute the work departmentally following due procedure. The Collector shall be authorized to select any other agency/agencies for execution of work.

Transparency measures such as a web based MIS for monitoring of the Scheme and a dedicated app for sharing of photographs before, during and after for each project with GIS tagging shall be developed under the scheme, as official release stated.