BERHAMPUR (ORISSA): Orissa's Ganjam is among four districts in the country selected by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for implementation of public private community partnership (PPCP) from this year.
The PPCP is a new concept for rural development involving private parties and communities to derive maximum benefit for livelihood support.
The other districts selected by UNDP in consultation with state governments for implementation of the PPCP are Dungarapur in Rajasthan, Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh and Mandala in Madhya Pradesh.
"We want to replicate the same on a pilot basis in three more districts in the country for community development, basically in rural areas," said P K Jena, Assistant Country Director of UNDP.
The UNDP also organised a workshop at the district headquarter town of Chhatrapur recently to explore the possible areas to develop in the PPCP model.
At the workshop Jena asked district authorities to prepare an action plan to woo private parties.
"We have selected several sectors including kewara processing, cashew processing, paddy procurement through self help groups and to make value addition from products, food processing and granite processing to develop through the PPCP model," Ganjam District Collector V K Pandian said.
The action plan was being prepared involving several departments including panchayat raj, industry and women and child development, he said.
While several private entrepreneurs, mostly from Uttar Pradesh, have set up the processing units to extract essence of kewara, a flower that grows widely in at least six blocks in the district, entrepreneurs from Andhra Pradsh and Rajasthan have taken lease of granite quarries.
The PPCP is a new concept for rural development involving private parties and communities to derive maximum benefit for livelihood support.
The other districts selected by UNDP in consultation with state governments for implementation of the PPCP are Dungarapur in Rajasthan, Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh and Mandala in Madhya Pradesh.
"We want to replicate the same on a pilot basis in three more districts in the country for community development, basically in rural areas," said P K Jena, Assistant Country Director of UNDP.
The UNDP also organised a workshop at the district headquarter town of Chhatrapur recently to explore the possible areas to develop in the PPCP model.
At the workshop Jena asked district authorities to prepare an action plan to woo private parties.
"We have selected several sectors including kewara processing, cashew processing, paddy procurement through self help groups and to make value addition from products, food processing and granite processing to develop through the PPCP model," Ganjam District Collector V K Pandian said.
The action plan was being prepared involving several departments including panchayat raj, industry and women and child development, he said.
While several private entrepreneurs, mostly from Uttar Pradesh, have set up the processing units to extract essence of kewara, a flower that grows widely in at least six blocks in the district, entrepreneurs from Andhra Pradsh and Rajasthan have taken lease of granite quarries.
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