Thursday, December 6, 2007

Govt to outsource parts of OTLEP

Outlook,Dec 6,2007

Claiming that the Orissa Tribal Empowerment and Livilihood Programme (OTELP) helped to improve living standard of tribals, state government today decided to outsource its financial management and monitoring activities to professional bodies.
This was decided at a meeting here attended by reprsentatives of the state government, DFID, IFD and World Food Programme. The OTELP was being jointly funded by the four bodies, official sources said.
According to Chief Secretary, Ajit Kumar Tripathy, the OTELP's first phase was implemented in 11 tribal dominated blocks under three districts of Rayagada, Nawarangpur and Malkangiri.
"The programe would be extended to four other districts like Koraput, Kalahandi, Kandhmal and Gajapati during the second phase which is scheduled to start from 2008," Tripathy told reporter.
The chief secretary said the representatives of DFID, IFD and WFP undertaken a visit to the blocks before allowing extension of the OTELP to four other districts.
He said while outsourcing the financial management, the government had decied to sanction 10 per cent of salaries of the field officers as incentive for proper implementation of the programme. "The officials engaged on contractual basis would be provided with incentives as it was being done in the western orissa rural livilihood project (WORLEP)," he said.

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