Talking to reporters after the meeting, additional secretary, Cabinet Secretariat department Upendra Kumar said the cabinet gave its approval to the draft, which would make the implemenation of the new CM Area Development Scheme 'crystal clear.

It was while presenting the state Budlget last February that the deputy chief minister-cum-finance minister, Sushil Kumar Modi, had scrapped the earlier scheme and decided to implement the new one with effect from April 1, 2011.

The argument given by the government was that the new scheme would avoid imbalance in regional development and check corruption.

Now on the development work will be carried out under the scheme on the basis of geographic
units instead of earlier procedure of doing work constituency-wise.

As reported earlier 85 per cent of development work will be carried out in rural areas and rest 15 per cent in urban areas.

The planning development department would work as a nodal agency for construction of panchayat Sarkar Bhavans, Anganvadi Bhavans, road construction and other structural works under the scheme.
The district committees would be responsible for sanctioning the shemes under the chairmanship of the ministers-in-charge of the concerned districts.

The Cabinet also decided to provide family pension to one or two widows of government servants who die after retirement.

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