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Govt to keep MPs updated about all rural development schemes

In the wake of a CAG report pointing to "significant deficiencies' in the implementation of UPA Government's flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme, the Union Rural Development Ministry has decided to keep all the In a recent letter to all MPs, Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad has informed them about the new steps taken by his Ministry in this regard and requested their active engagement in the implementation of the scheme in their respective constituencies. According to sources, the Ministry, in collaboration with National Informatics Centre, has developed a software which can segregate data on the schemes for each districts. This data would then be e-mailed to MPs on a monthly basis from February onwards. In the beginning, the Ministry will send the monthly reports on its three main schemes