Minister Atul Save says agencies must work together to deliver welfare schemes, opens training camp at YASHADA

Mumbai, Oct 25: Government schemes must be implemented properly and their benefits must reach the last person in society, and the administration should work in coordination to achieve this, said Atul Save, Minister for Other Backward Bahujan Welfare, Dairy Development, Non-Conventional Energy and Welfare of Persons with Disabilities. Save is also the chairman of VANARTI. He said attention should be paid to keeping work streamlined so that schemes are implemented more effectively.

The minister was speaking at the inauguration of a state-level residential training camp at YASHADA in Pune. The camp has been organised jointly by the Other Backward Bahujan Welfare Department and the Late Vasantrao Naik Research and Training Institute (VANARTI), Nagpur, on the occasion of the 200th birth anniversary year of Krantisurya Mahatma Jyotirao Phule.

Uddhavrao Kale, president of the Bhatke-Vimukt Vikas Parishad, Maharashtra, Appasaheb Dhulaj, Secretary of the Other Backward Bahujan Welfare Department, and Prashant Wavge, managing director of VANARTI, were present as chief guests. State-level non-official members Rajendra Donadkar, Dr Sanjay Puri, Naresh Pote and Sharad Makar were also present.

The camp will run for two days, October 24 and 25. Non-official members of the department, and field officers of the department and of the Revenue Department are taking part. At the start, portraits of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Krantisurya Mahatma Jyotirao Phule, Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule, Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar, Bharat Ratna Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, Raje Umaji Naik and Vasantrao Naik were worshipped and tributes were paid.

Save said that for schemes to be implemented effectively, coordination among the agencies concerned is essential. While following administrative rules and procedures, emphasis should be placed on making field-level work more capable and effective, he said. He added that the training would help the department's schemes to be implemented in a more streamlined manner.

The camp will offer guidance on the department's various schemes, government rules and procedures, administrative responsibilities, effective implementation of schemes and coordination at the field level. Prashant Wavge, managing director of VANARTI, said the main aim of the camp is to speed up the schemes run for the welfare of the Bahujan community, in keeping with the goal of social transformation envisaged in Mahatma Phule's thinking based on equality.