A workshop upon Joint Work Policy of District Administration and NGOs during COVID-19 the pandemic @DC_Hazaribag

06 May 2020, Hazaribag: At Soochna Bhawan, Ms Vijaya Jadhav (Deputy Development Commissioner-Hazaribag) has called a workshop upon joint work policy of the district administration & NGOs during this crucial period of COVID-19 pandemic. As per the guidelines from the MHA & Niti Ayog, the DDC has stressed upon mutual modus operandi, work plans and encouraged various NGOs, CBOs, religious organizations and the bodies working towards economic empowerment of women/farmers to contact the people and to work for them.

The DDCs is the nodal officers and SUPPORT-Hazaribag has been identified as the Mother NGO for this purpose.

On this occasion, the DDC has issued guidelines to the representatives of NGOs about working with the people of COVID-19 affected blocks and chalked out strategy upon various works with the farmers and to increase man-days under MGNREGA. The works by district administration & the organizations include as to identify persons from deprived families & to link them with services & schemes, to make people aware and to educate them about the pandemic, dissemination of needful information & message through social media, to encourage people to follow rules & regulations of lockdown, to indentify people coming from outside-to inform the authority-to manage quarantine center for them, to arrange masks-gloves-head gears, to inform deprived people about the Govt. run Dal Bhat Kendra-Didi Kitchen- meal centers at PSs, distribution of food packets, psychiatric counseling, to operate helpline, to work in hotspot areas, to support Govt. run PDS-Ujjwala yojna-PM Kisan Samman yojna, JanDhan yojna-registration of migrant & local laborers for home return & their registration-providing work under MGNREGA, to make people aware about various schemes, to ensure pre-natal check up for pregnant women, safeguarding children, nutritious food distribution at Anganbadi centers etc. To blame COVID-19 suffering or infected people is a big problem, so the NGOs are supposed to support influential people of society to check the prejudice and to be in touch with the communities to eradicate doubts/mistrust among people. All the issues were discussed broadly in the meeting and the NGOs have been asked to render their support in coordination with the district administration.

As the Honourable Chief Minister launched three new schemes as Nilambar-Pitambar Jal Samriddhi Yojana, Birsa Harit Gram Yojana & Poto Ho Khel Vikas Yojna, the NGOs working in rural areas must support proper execution of these schemes, the DDC said.

The meeting was participated by Mrs. Anuja Rana (DPO, MGNREGA), Mr. Bhawani Shankar Gupta (Secretary, SUPPORT-the mother NGO), Mr. Gaurav Jaiswal (DPO-JSLPS) and chief functionaries of 43 NGOs of the district including Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) who supported the consensus.