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JAMMU: Financial Commissioner (FC), Agriculture Production Department, Pramod Jain chaired interdepartmental level meeting of officers to review the implementation of various Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) in the State in the Committee Room of Civil Secretariat, Jammu.
Director Agriculture Jammu A K Malhotra, Director Command Area Manisha Sharma, Director Sericulture Dr Malik Farooq, Director Planning APD H R Bhagat, Director Horticulture Jammu Bhawani Rakwal, Director Fisheries, Senior officers from Forest Department, SKUAST Jammu, Horticulture Planning and Marketing, Animal Husbandry, Sheep Husbandry and allied attended the meeting. The Kashmir based HoDs and senior officers participated in the meeting through video conferencing.
The various Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) which were reviewed included Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY), National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA), Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), Sub-Mission on Agriculture Mechanization (SMAM), National Mission on Agriculture Extension and Technology (NMAET), National Food Security Mission (NFSM), National Mission on Oilseed and Oil Palm (NMOOP), National e-Governance Plan for Agriculture (NeGPA), Integrated Scheme for Development of Sericulture Industry, etc.
Jain impressed upon all the executing officers to remain abreast with the procedures or standard methodology to be adopted for implementation of the Centrally Sponsored Schemes. He also stressed that the liaison of the Mission Directors with the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India and State government offices at Civil Secretariat level should be prompt and result reoriented for speedy and effective gap filling of the links without any wastage of time. He added that the timeline as envisaged in the guidelines has to be adhered to by all the implementing agencies so that the work should not suffer due to slow progress on part of a particular implementing Department.
It was also stressed that the implementing agencies should get ready for Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme (DBT) by digitization of beneficiary database with Adhaar, mobile numbers and bank accounts for schemes involving cash transfer from the next financial year.
It was finally concluded that all the executing Departments should submit their audited UCs and progress reports of all schemes ready by the 20th of January 2017 so that claim for release of second installment under Centrally Sponsored Schemes can be projected to the appropriate quarters.
