- He has dispatched 2,70,000 booklets detailing the various rural welfare schemes not just to every panchayat in the country, but to every MLA and MP as well.
- Held workshops for all Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs—in six groups—in the last session of Parliament. Here, he personally explained the guidelines of the various schemes, and handed out copies of fund release status reports for every district to help the MPs follow up on implementation in their constituencies.
- Decentralised the ministry's monthly newsletter. Earlier, it went from the ministry to the gram panchayats, with the result that the newsletters often did not reach many of the addressees, and its content was often not relevant to the field. Now the ministry sends its newsletter to each of the 600 district rural development agencies (DRDAS) and each district then prints its own newsletter for the gram panchayats.
- Ensured that the MPs see themselves as stakeholders in the development process, by setting up district-level vigilance and monitoring committees headed by the local MP, with the district magistrate as member secretary. The ministry's feedback is that 40 per cent of MPs are taking their new responsibility seriously.
- Set up work-specific beneficiary committees at the gram sabha level to ensure involvement of local people in their own schemes. It is working best in states like Kerala and Rajasthan where an effective Right to Information Act is already in place.
- Introduced an online monitoring system for the schemes, replacing the old system that resulted in a time lag of three months. Now, any citizen who opens the website of the ministry can access the progress of rural development schemes in his or her district. This has already been implemented in 520 of the country's 600 districts.
The Thinker And The Doer
Raghuvansh Prasad has shown colleagues he is a man to reckon with
The Thinker And The Doer
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