Malda Training Diary - Administrative Training Institute

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DOMDANGA, and HANSPUKUR. Wherever people have managed to secure pumps,
everything is green for quite some distance.
Unfortunately, I found that instead of going in for pumps on a loan basis (deep and
shallow tube-wells do not work here due to lack of underground water sources), the people
are more anxious for cash loans.
In conclusion, I would like to submit that in terms of a long-term prospective, we
should vigorously extend the extension services, and emphasize on providing tractors, seeds
and pumps on hire/loan basis. This will result in good corps, which will obviate necessity of
G.R. and H.B. grants in future.
For the present, this Gram Sabha might be supplied bamboo structure from, say,
Kutubsahar, instead of being given cash-loans which they will expend in buying good-grains.
The AEO should visit this area and take steps to control the pest-menace.
R.L.I. schemes may be sanctioned as soon as feasible.
Orders may please be passed as deemed proper.
Yours faithfully,
(Pradip Bhattacharya)
N.B. BDO submitted the above schemes through me to DM on 16/3/72