Even as 45,139 families of the first phase are getting their second installment of the fund, all the eight district administrators have been instructed to conduct selection of beneficiaries in their respective jurisdictions, the official statement said.
As many as 45,000 families will be selected to benefit from the poverty alleviation program in its second phase for the year 2012-2013.
A baseline survey of beneficiaries had already been conducted across the state with the help of village councils and branches of Young Mizo Association, the largest NGO in the state. The project is divided into four phases, the first two phases covering 90,139 families in rural and urban areas.
The next two phases will cover more families. The deputy commissioner offices and all line departments will help the beneficiaries in selecting their trades, which is expected to be completed by the end of this November. Beneficiaries in the third and fourth phase will also be selected at the same time, but their selection of trades will be done in due course of time.
The DCs and officials of line departments are strictly monitoring the utilization of money by the first phase beneficiaries. A number of families have been found misusing the fund and their names have been deleted from getting the next installment of fund, the official source said.
Monitoring committee has been set up at the district and village level to ensure that the NLUP fund is used by the stakeholders for the right purpose.
The Congress government has laid importance on the monitoring as it was found that the NLUP implemented in its previous term, from 1993 to 1998, was grossly misused by the beneficiaries. This time it has taken every measure to make sure that not even single rupee is wasted.
The Rs 2,527-crore NLUP has been taken up for sustainable land-based economic activities and to remove the age-old jhum cultivation in the state. In the first five years, the NLUP aims to support 120,000 families.
He said the departments of agriculture, horticulture, veterinary, industries, forest, fisheries, sericulture and soil and water conservation would be involved in the scheme.
The NLUP also aims to create 21,480 hectares of bamboo plantation to benefit 10,740 families. Despite the slash-and-burn system of cultivation, Mizoram has a large forest cover area with 75.77 percent of the total land.
The NLUP intends to keep 60 percent of the state s total geographical area under forest cover and the remaining 40 percent for land-based development, officials said.
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