Jharkhand

• 30 Apr 2022

Virtual training camp organized for successful implementation of Birsa Harit Gram Yojana

Why In News?

On April 29, 2022, MGNREGA Commissioner Rajeshwari B. in a virtual training camp for successful implementation of Birsa Harit Gram Yojana in the financial year 2022-23 directed the trainees and officers to complete 100 per cent of the work of CPT (Anti-Animal Trench) while working in line with the target of the scheme.

Key Point

• Speaking on the occasion, Rajeshwari B directed the officials present to motivate the farmers to plant mango, lime, guava and building plants under mixed horticulture in the financial year 2022-23 to make the people self-reliant through mixed horticulture.
• It may be recalled that on May 4, 2020, the Jharkhand government had launched three labour intensive programmes - 'Birsa Harit Gram Yojana', 'Nilambar-Pitambar Jal Samriddhi Yojana' and 'Veer Shaheed Poto Ho Khel Vikas Yojana' with an aim to generate employment for workers in rural areas.
• The Birsa Green Village Scheme aims at utilizing more than two lakh acres of unused Government fallow land for afforestation.
• Under this, about five lakh families will be given 100 fruit bearing plants and the responsibility of their plantation, maintenance, land work and afforestation will be with the rural households while the ownership of the land will remain with the government.
• Under this scheme, more than five crore fruit bearing plants are expected to be planted in the next few months.
• The scheme is estimated to have fetched an annual income of about Rs.50,000/- from these plants after three years to each household.