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NITISH MISHRA 12 Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg (Bailey Road), Patna 800 015 Bihar, India Minister Telefax: - +91-612 -2215977 Department of Mobile: - +91-99340 20060 Rural Development E-mail :- [email protected] Government of Website: - www.rdd.bih.nic.in , www.jhanjharpur.com Bihar, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nitish Mishra, Minister, Department of He cherishes two significant publications on Rural Development, Govt. of Bihar (INDIA) contemporary and contextual issues to his is a dynamic leader with motivational credit namely, “Essays in Political qualities, has a record of academic Economy – A Global Perspective”. excellence and proven proficiency in people Published in 1998 and “External Alienation skills. Born on 9th of July, 1973, at an young and Internal Apathy – An Analysis of age of little less than only four decades, he Bihar’s Backwardness”, published in 1999 has more than 17 years of experience in by Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi. diversified management, people centric operations, development initiatives, With his in-depth knowledge of rural milieu administration and co-ordination in the and economies and functional hands-on Profit, Non-profit and Government sectors. experience in conceptualising, designing and developing socio-economic projects, He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in strategies for community and societal Global Political Economy, from the development, he has emerged as a non- University of Hull, United Kingdom (1998), controversial icon for young minds in both a Masters in Business Administration from rural as well as urban frameworks. He the FORE School of Management, New strongly supports and believes in a positive Delhi and Maastricht School of work environment that fosters team Management, Netherlands (1995) and a performance Bachelor's degree in History from University of Delhi (1994). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He has been consecutively elected to the 13th, 14th and 15th Bihar State Legislative Assembly from Jhanjharpur Assembly Constituency, located in the State of Bihar. His Ministerial experience and achievement as Minister Department of Rural Development, Government of Bihar – since 26th of November, 2010 till date, inter alia includes the following broad areas: His proactive interventions in implementation of MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) in Bihar, augments; • A process of randomized inspection of schemes notified to improve quality of supervision. • 100% uploading of scheme data on narega.nic.in achieved for financial year 2011-12 for the first time. NITISH MISHRA, Minister, Department of Rural Development, Government of Bihar 12 Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg (Bailey Road), Patna 800 001 Bihar, India • Wall Painting of scheme and job card holder payments in each panchayats notified in an effort to improve transparency and accountability. • Systematized the ‘2nd October Gram Sabha’ for selection of schemes and preparation of annual plan for the year 2012 - 2013 by organizing ward sabha's and meetings of empowered committee consisting of Sarpanch, Ward Panch, Mukhiya and Ward Members. Video recording of the proceedings were taken to ensure that the meetings were not merely on paper. • Revolving fund established with advance release of state share as a mechanism to tide over liquidity problem. • System of fund release from district to panchayats streamlined by providing centralized log in facility to all DRDAs by mapping all panchayats bank accounts to Central Plan Scheme Monitoring System (CPSMS). • Focus on Social Audits of the schemes. • Approved training program for 30,000 MGNREGA employees and Public Representatives. He has remained instrumental in implementation of IAY (Indira Awaas Yojana – Rural Housing Scheme), with commendable evidences of; • Reduced corruption and improved rate of sanctioning of IAY units by institutionalizing panchayats level camps for sanction of IAY units.In the financial Year 2011 – 2012 9, 00000 rural families were benefitted of this scheme. • Reduced involvement of middle-men and harassment of beneficiaries by providing budget lines for all aspects of the camp. • Block level camps for disbursement regularized by securing the involvement of district in charge ministers and departmental secretaries. • Secured involvement of Divisional Commissioners in the work in IAY for the first time. • Sanction orders of satellite based geo-tagged and time stamped photography based monitoring of IAY completion. • Orders issued of converging Public Health Engineering Department (Phed) scheme for toilets and IAY. While spearheading the various components of NRLM–National Rural Livelihood Mission, in Bihar, he has taken initiatives for; • Cabinet orders issued on implementation arrangements for National Rural Livelihood Mission in Bihar. • Creation of New position of Commissioner, Self Employment in the department and CEO BRLPS being notified as ex-officio holder of the position. • Finalisation and approval of Cabinet for State Program Implementation Plan (SPIP) for Bihar. Bihar was one of the first states to do so. • Skill development program initiated for training and placement of one million rural youths. Amongst various other contributions and credibility which went hands in hand with his ministerial responsibilities significantly includes increased participation of Public representatives in the implementation of various rural development programs. He has conceptualized the training programs for the Block Development Officers and has also initiated the process to strengthen the Block Offices. He has accorded priority to the usage of Information Technology as an effective medium to achieve the results in various departmental programs, formulated strategies to effectively undertake the Socio Economic Caste Census for the rural and NITISH MISHRA, Minister, Department of Rural Development, Government of Bihar 12 Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg (Bailey Road), Patna 800 001 Bihar, India urban area as per Government of India directives and has also designed the performance appraisal mechanism for the Block Development Officers and introduced exposure visits outside Bihar. * He has held the office as Minister for Department of Disaster Management, Govt of Bihar in between 13th of April 2008 till 22nd of March 2009. During this tenure, he supervised one of the India’s biggest rescue operations where one million people were evacuated from the Kosi Flood areas. 3 Million People were marooned by the devastating Kosi floods in the five districts of Bihar namely Supaul, Madhepura, Araria, Saharsa and Purnea. The Kosi flood was declared as a National Calamity by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India. He remained stationed in the flood affected district of Araria and personally monitored relief and rescue operations. He also supervised the air dropping of food packets from Chunagarh (Purnea) Air Force base. More than 2.5lakh food packets and more than 1.5 lakh water bottles were air dropped in the flood affected area by 8 helicopters. Altogether more than 350 air sorties were done and more than 3000 boats were deployed in relief and rescue operation. He had co-ordinated opening of more than 300 relief camps and mega camps and Co-ordinated with PHED, Health, and Animal Husbandry departments in installation of 2155 hand pumps, construction of 3750 temporary toilets, functioning of more than 200 health centre Health centres and more than 150 veterinary centres. He had supervised the distribution by the district administration of 6.85 lakh quintal of grains, 1.83 lakh kits, 1.58 lakh polythene sheets and 17571.80 lakh cash as per the CRF norms of Government of India among flood affected people besides simultaneously co-ordinating with profit and non-profit organisations in carrying relief in the flood affected area. * In between 24th of November .2005 and 13th of April, 2008, his achievements as Minister for Department of Sugarcane Development . He had for the first time taken charge of office in capacity of a Minister in 2005. During this tenure he had conceptualised and framed the Sugar Industry incentive policy for establishment of new sugar complex and capacity expansion of existing units. He had taken special initiatives for clearing the arrear payment of sugarcane farmers of the Bihar State Sugar Corporation pending since 1997 amounting to Rs. 8.84 cr. The Research and Development facility at Sugarcane Research Institute Pusa was strengthened with a grant of Rs. 5.50 Cr, sanctioned from his chair. As a result of such initiatives, Proposals worth Rs. 20,000 cr. was received by the department for establishment of New Sugar complexes within two years after the announcement of the incentive policy. Capacity of existing sugar mills was expanded by from 37200 TCD to 53200 TCD. Production of Ethanol was started in two existing distilleries of the sugar mills and MOU was signed NITISH MISHRA, Minister, Department of Rural Development, Government of Bihar 12 Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg (Bailey Road), Patna 800 001 Bihar, India between the Oil companies and the sugar factories. A New distillery of 45 KLPD was established. Cogeneration of 20 MW capacities was started in two of the sugar factories. Moreover during this tenure, he had sanctioned sugarcane price subsidy of 43 cr. to mitigate the hardship of the farmers for the season 2006-07 due to

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