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*Empowering citizen’s and their institutions for realising NREGAThe National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) provides an opportunity to the Panchayats to implement the schemes for generating employment as well as meeting sustainable infrastructure. *Self Disclosure of Panchayats Samarthan motivated 5 Panchayats each in Sehore and Ajaygarh to prepare self disclosure manuals in accordance with the Section 4 (1) (b) of the RTI Act 2005. These documents were prepared and were kept at the Panchayat so that the Gram Sabha members can review the document at any time. *Status Report on Implementation of RTI in Madhya Pradesh A report on the status of implementation of RTI Act in Madhya Pradesh was prepared by Samarthan. The report is an attempt to access the impact of the implementation of RTI Act in Madhya Pradesh over the past one year. *Addressing Water and Sanitation through Governance Structures Samarthan has been working on the issue of sanitation with the objective to demonstrate the capabilities of the Panchayas and gram sabha in Planning, execution and long term sustenance of participatory water and sanitation initiatives towards establishing the vigor of local self government. With a network of 17 organisations across the state, the elected representatives and government officials were oriented on the provisions of the Act. During the year about 5300 elected representatives from 15 districts of Madhya Pradesh were oriented on RTI. |
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