Patna, May 3: The state government today approved the guidelines for implementation of the chief minister’s area development plan (CMADP), which aims at striking a regional balance between the urban and rural areas of the state. The approval was given in the cabinet meeting held today.

The Telegraph had reported about the proposed plan on April 11, 2011.

The approved guidelines say the district would be the unit for planning and not Assembly segments. The guidelines also say that area, population and concentration of SC/ST population in a given district would be the three parameters on the basis of which any district would get fund under this plan.

“While 85 per cent of the fund under this plan would be meant for rural areas, the remaining fund would be for development works of urban areas,” cabinet co-ordination department additional secretary Upendra Kumar said in the post-cabinet news meet.

Construction of panchayat bhavans, anganwadi kendras, godowns, community halls, lanes, drains, bus terminus, shed for passengers, public library among other things would be done on priority basis under the CMADP.

The cabinet also approved an interesting proposal, which talks of division of family pensions in case a state government employee has left more than one widow after his death.

In light of a recent judgement of the high court, the cabinet gave approval to a proposal which talks of dividing the family pension equally among the widows of dead employees in case the employee concerned had gone for second marriage after getting permission from the government in accordance with the various personal laws or on other basis.