Plan panel steps in to tackle Bundelkhand’s drought miseries
September 5th, 2010 - 3:24 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) The Planning Commission has set up a high-level panel to devise ways and means to tackle the drought in Bundelkhand, a region spread over Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
Called the Advisory Committee on Implementation of Drought Mitigation Strategies in Bundelkhand, it will be headed by the Commission’s Deputy Chairman, Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
The cabinet had earlier approved a Rs.766-crore special package for the perennially parched and backward region. It primarily envisages optimum utilisation of water resources through rainwater harvesting and through proper exploitation of the river systems in the region.
It also envisages promotion of intensive and diversified agriculture in the region.
The panel consists of seven Lok Sabha members from the region, besides the Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs, V. Narayanasamy, and the Minister of State for Rural Development, Pradeep Kumar Jain ‘Aditya.’
The other members on the panel are Planning Commission members B.K. Chaturvedi, Mihir Shah, Abhijit Sen, Secretary Sudha Pillai and the National Rainfed Area Authority Chief Executive Officer, J.S. Samra.
The Bundelkhand region comprises seven districts of Uttar Pradesh - Banda, Chitrakoot, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur and Mahoba, and six districts of Madhya Pradesh - Chhatarpur, Damoh, Datia, Panna, Sagar and Tikamgarh.
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