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HRD policy for contract staff soon

Staff Reporter

Rural Development Department largest employer of contract staff

For rural welfare: Minister for Rural Development G.Chinna Reddy addressing field staff of DWMA, IKP and DRDA at Balaji function hall in Sangareddy on Monday. Commissioner Rural Development Shanti Kumar and district Collector B.Venkatesam also seen.

SANGAREDDY: Rural Development Department, which is the single largest employer of contract labour in the State, would soon have its own human resource development policy for their welfare.

Announcing this at the District Water Management Agency (DWMA), Indira Kranthi Patham (IKP) and District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) staff review meeting here on Monday, Rural Development Minister G.Chinna Reddy said, that a draft policy for the welfare of the contract staff was already prepared.

The Minister assured the field and technical assistants, assistant project managers, area coordinators and other field staff that most of their demands including maternity benefit for women and travelling allowance would be addressed in the policy.

Smart cards

The Minister also announced that Pulkal pilot project would be implemented all over the State under which Women self help groups take up the weekly payments for beneficiaries under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP).

Similarly the pilot project of payment through Smart cards, which was introduced in Warangal and Karimnagar districts, would be implemented in all the districts where the NREGP was being taken up.

The payment was being made through tiny banks after verification by biometric system, he said.

Elaborating on the project, Mr. Chinna Reddy said that the State Government was in touch with the Reserve Bank of India for necessary approval as the department was making monthly payments of a staggering Rs. 1,200 crore through post offices.

Later addressing the press, Mr. Chinna Reddy said that even though he would wish separate statehood for Telangana by the year 2009, he was fully satisfied with the development work being taken up by the Chief Minister in the backward regions of the State.

Refusing to announce a deadline for Telangana, the Minister said that never before such huge amount was spent on irrigation in Telangana region.

He ridiculed TDP leader Mr. Devender Goud for taking up padayatra in Rangareddy district, and said that so far 30,000 acres of land had been distributed under Indiramma phase one, and another 40,000 acres were identified for phase two.

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