From a state that had become synonymous with 'poor' governance, Bihar has now emerged as a role model for other states through a specially-crafted programme, the Central government feels.
The Centre has asked nine Naxal-affected states to adopt Bihar's novel initiative 'Aapki Sarkar Aapke Dwaar' programme for providing essential services to people in gram panchayats.
The Union Panchayati Raj Ministry in a recent circular pointed out that weak governance structures and weakness of the local administration are both cause and effect of Left-wing extremism.
Every panchayat should be on the lines of 'Aapki Sarkar Aapke Dwaar' programme of Bihar, it said and asked the affected states to improve quality of governance and service delivery by delegating sufficient administrative and financial powers to panchayat raj institutions.
"This is needed urgently in at least the 33 most extremist-affected districts," the Ministry said in its circular to chief secretaries of the Naxal-hit states.
It further said that the innovative use of Backward Regions Growth Fund (BRGF) grants to address specific local problems, updating and computerising land records including forest land and common property resources and adopting an integrated strategy for tackling development and security challenges can also help check the menace.link
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Thursday 20 August 2009
Tuesday 11 August 2009
BIADA to reinstate sacked staff
The Patna High Court on Monday disposed of a Letters Patent Appeal (LPA) of the Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA) on its submission that it would reinstate the 108 employees whose services it had terminated.
A division bench presided by acting Chief Justice Shivakirti Singh and Justice Anjana Prakash disposed of the petition when additional advocate general Lalit Kishore submitted that BIADA had recently got an undertaking from the association of the terminated employees that they would not resort to strike and maintain discipline. On the basis of this undertaking, BIADA is going to reinstate them, he added.
BIADA had filed the LPA challenging the decision of a single bench of the Patna High Court, which had set aside the order of termination of the employees after they refused to go on contract. Soon after their termination, the employees had resorted to strike.
Panchayats:
A single bench presided by Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi on Monday directed the state government to file a counter affidavit to writ petitions of the mukhiyas of four gram panchayats -Paspura, Ulao, Singhol and Mohammadpur Raghunathpur, challenging the government decision to bring the four panchayats under the Bhagalpur municipal corporation.
Mukhiyas Rajendra Das, Vishnu Priya, Uday Shankar Mishra and Meena Devi have challenged the government move on the ground that the gram panchayats were elected for five years under the provisions of the Constitution and Bihar Panchayat Raj Act.
Petitioners' counsel M P Gupta submitted the four gram panchayats cannot be made a part of the Bhagalpur municipal corporation before completion of their five-year term. link
A division bench presided by acting Chief Justice Shivakirti Singh and Justice Anjana Prakash disposed of the petition when additional advocate general Lalit Kishore submitted that BIADA had recently got an undertaking from the association of the terminated employees that they would not resort to strike and maintain discipline. On the basis of this undertaking, BIADA is going to reinstate them, he added.
BIADA had filed the LPA challenging the decision of a single bench of the Patna High Court, which had set aside the order of termination of the employees after they refused to go on contract. Soon after their termination, the employees had resorted to strike.
Panchayats:
A single bench presided by Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi on Monday directed the state government to file a counter affidavit to writ petitions of the mukhiyas of four gram panchayats -Paspura, Ulao, Singhol and Mohammadpur Raghunathpur, challenging the government decision to bring the four panchayats under the Bhagalpur municipal corporation.
Mukhiyas Rajendra Das, Vishnu Priya, Uday Shankar Mishra and Meena Devi have challenged the government move on the ground that the gram panchayats were elected for five years under the provisions of the Constitution and Bihar Panchayat Raj Act.
Petitioners' counsel M P Gupta submitted the four gram panchayats cannot be made a part of the Bhagalpur municipal corporation before completion of their five-year term. link
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