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29/10/22 22:18 PM IST

District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committees (DISHAs)

In News 
  • Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh presides over a DISHA meeting to review progress on various Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) being implemented in the Kishtwar district.
About DISHA 
  • The main purpose of the DISHA is to coordinate with Central and State and local Panchayat Governments
  • It has been created for effective coordination and development of Central Government’s programme for infrastructure development or Social and human resource development
  • The Chairperson of the committee will be the senior most Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) elected from the district, nominated by the Union Ministry of Rural Development
  • It will ensure the participation of people’s representative at all levels and successful implementation of flagship programme of central government.
  • Ensure that all Central Government programmes are implemented in accordance with the guidelines
  • Look into complaints and alleged irregularities received in the implementation of the programmes. In this regard it will have authority to summon and inspect any record.
  • DISHA dashboard, the application, which is now available to all members of Parliament and State Assemblies as well district officials, allows the user to track the progress of multiple and diverse schemes in a certain district, block, or even a gram panchayat.
  • The application automatically turns sets of statistics and data into interactive and visually accessible graphics and maps.
Source- The Hindu 

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