THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, August 7: “We too can achieve A+ in Panchayat Advancement Index 1.0 like Lohardaga, Khunti etc districts. Our ‘will’ will show the way,” was the pep talk of the DDC Md Jawed Hussain at the one day workshop on Panchayat Advancement Index 1.0 held in the Pdt Deen Dayal Upadhyay Smriti Bhavan in Daltonganj on Thursday.
The Panchayat Advancement Index 1.0 aligns with the localisation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
The DDC first asked the capacity crowd as to how many of the people sitting in the hall have seen the film ‘Manjhi: The Mountain Man’. The response was almost negligible.
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Motivation Through Real-Life Lessons
Then he talked about a video clip, saying it’s in English but people here will understand its meaning. DDC was not wrong.
Jawed known by his first name, first showed a 7-minute video clip of how people not only survive but grow amidst extreme hardships and adverse weather conditions at the Sahara desert and have never given up hope for life. So, people of Palamu should take a leaf from this spirit and strive hard to achieve an A+ in Panchayat Advancement Index 1.0.
“The commonplace concept is top to down, but for the Panchayat Advancement Index 1.0, it’s bottom up which starts from a scratch to the zenith. The task is big but achievable,” reminded the DDC.
Lack of Data Entry Raises Eyebrows
A master trainer almost parroted that Palamu’s 265 panchayats are still far away from A+ or A category, and it is Zero on both counts, A+ or A on the 9 indicators, giving a poor and ill-conceived reasoning that “Our panchayats have done good jobs, but their data entry is unavailable. He repeated this 6 times, making the crowd asked in whispers who on earth had stopped from data entry on the specified portal.”
It was the District Panchayati Raj Officer Binay Shrivastav who in his address, neither rued of lagging behind nor did he make any promise to do wonders at once.
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Mixed Scores Reveal Ground Realities
This workshop on Panchayat Advancement Index 1.0 was of the year 2022-23. It puts Palamu’s scores hovering between 40-60, barring village health, where its score is 80 plus on average.
Palamu’s panchayats’ score of using LED for street light, renewable energy dangles between 43 to 59.
It’s a 67 to 76 score of poverty-free and livelihood panchayats in Palamu, which means a 30 plus per cent of the population migrates to beat their poverty outside the panchayats and the state.
There would be an identical workshop of Panchayat Advancement Index 1.0 at block levels, informed the District Panchayati Raj Officer Binay Shrivastav.
Zila Parishad’s chief and deputy chief, Additional Collector, District Social Welfare Officer and others graced the workshop, which started as many as 50 minutes late.
