PUNE, Jan 4: Two year since he separated from his brain-child - the Maharashtra Government's aadarsh gao yojana (model village project) - due to differences with Joshi Government over alleged corruption involving the higher-ups, Anna Hazare is now all set to re-launch his dream in 50 villages to begin with.The project supported by Council for Advancement of Peoples' Action and Rural Technology (CAPART) will formally be launched during a training camp for model village project activists at Hazare's native Ralegan Sidhhi on January 16.Hazare told The Indian Express this morning that the five-point charter of kurhad bandi, ban on tree-felling, charai bandi, ban on grazing, nasha bandi, prohibition, nasbandi, family planning and shramadaan, voluntary labour; he had framed for his dream villages would remain. ``However, the schemes would differ from that of the State Government's on many counts,'' he pointed out.``The aadarsh gav yojana now has been completely governmentalised,'' he rued adding that even a few officials truly involved in the project were able to do very little. ``It has drifted from its basic aim to build the villages through building characters of its people.''An independent machinery set up through the Hind Swaraj Trust to monitor and evaluate the work done and to train the activists has been a vital aspect of his scheme, besides a stress on shramadaan, Hazare said. ``The day villages forsake voluntary labour, they will be out of the scheme. Monitoring of the cost and benefit ratio. This is where both the schemes (one he is launching and the State Government's) differ,'' he said.He said he aimed at making 75 per cent of the fiscal inputs to reach on the fields, doing away with the traditional Government practice of spending colossal sums on administration. Fifteen per cent of the total budget would be spent on administration with 10 per cent more on education and awareness.A team of four experts including a civil engineer, an agriculture engineer, an expert in animal husbandry/ forestry and a trained social worker would assist the villagers' committee consisting one female and two male volunteers. The village committee would elect a secretary of its own who would monitor the activities at the village level.The Ralegan Siddhi would be hosting a two-day workshop beginning from January 15 for the representatives of the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) associated with his project, the members of the village-level committees, he said. The workshop will be attended by the director-general of CAPART.He recently toured seven western Maharashtra and Marathwada districts to identify the villages. Urgency to include the village in the scheme and villagers' preparedness to be abide by the five-point programme where the major criteria, he said.
