[1]Young graduates, who will work in Maoist and tribal areas under the Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows (PMRDF) programme, will be paid Rs 65,000 per month for the two-year stint. “It’s like a leap in the dark. It’s a very difficult area to work. In some places like Narayanpur in Chhattisgarh, the government doesn’t function. Only Ramakrishna Mission runs an anganwadi, fair price shop etc. But I am confident 90 per cent of you will complete the tenure,” rural development minister Jairam Ramesh joked.
Referring to the on-going Maoist operations in Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and other places, he told media persons later that their activities could get curbed only when “the political leg, the development leg and the security leg” functioned in tandem. He added that Andhra Pradesh could achieve this.
“In many Maoist-hit areas, the political leg is absent and there is no government,” he said. Stating that Andhra Pradesh remained No 1 in the country in the implementation of MGNREGS, the minister added that National Rural Livelihood Mission and Total Sanitation Campaign had been delinked from Above Poverty Line and Below Poverty Line.
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