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Rawat, Satpal to monitor UPA schemes in Uttarakhand

By IANS,

New Delhi: The Congress Tuesday named Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Harish Rawat and Lok Sabha MP Satpal Maharaj as members of a coordination committee to oversee the central government's flagship programmes in Uttarakhand.

The Congress appointed a 10-member coordination committee and nine-member monitoring panel to keep an eye on the UPA flagship programmes like rural employment plan and others.

Polls in the hill state are due early next year.