New Delhi: Nearly 750 officers of the Centre have been tasked with saturating almost 45,000 villages in 115 ‘ aspirational districts ’ with seven government schemes by August 15 in the second edition of the Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (GSA) which is being closely monitored by the Prime Minister’s Office.An officer has been designated for every 75 villages and each has been tasked to undertake at least three visits to the village spanning four seven days, till August 15, senior government officials told ET.While each district has been assigned a ‘prabhari officer’ in a joint or an additional secretary role, 322 directors and deputy secretary officers and another 322 under-secretaries have been assigned the jobs of ‘nodal officers’. Four to 10 such nodal officers have been tagged with each prabhari officer, who will assign villages for tour scheduling and coordinate the visits of nodal officers.Seven government schemes, in five “priority focus areas” such as education, health, nutrition, skills and agriculture, have been selected and a control room set up in New Delhi’s Krishi Bhawan for realtime monitoring by the prabhari officers. The highest number of targeted villages are in Bihar (8,569), followed by West Bengal (7,981), Jharkhand (6,512), UP (5,130) and Madhya Pradesh (3,048).“The programme is about targeting of poverty of households and poverty of geographies,” said one of the senior officials, who did not wish to be identified.The nodal officers have been asked to provide observations from the field such as citizens’ awareness of the schemes in question, whether any scheme is perceived to be expensive, suitability of schemes and any malpractices detected on the ground. The biggest job at hand is for the power ministry, to cover 56.83 lakh unelectrified households in the targeted 45,136 villages under the ‘Saubhagya’ scheme. The ministry is planning to use a mobile app for releasing connections on the spot.The petroleum ministry also has a challenge ahead as it provided 7.77 lakh LPG connections under Ujjwala against a target of 10.29 lakh connections in 16,000-odd villages under Phase 1 of the GSA from April 14 to May 5. The highest-ever 35.17 lakh LPG connections were given out across the country in May, and the government plans to build on that in Phase 2 of GSA.The campaign is also being taken up in Karnataka and West Bengal which got left out in GSA-1 due to model code of conduct due to elections.State level coordination is being done by state chief secretaries. “You would agree that the saturation of seven schemes in aspirational districts, requiring mobilisation of government agencies at different levels, would catalyse the implementation of action plans of these districts under the Aspirational Districts programme,” rural development secretary Amarjeet Sinha had written to all chief secretaries covering the 115 aspirational districts, while kicking off the programme from June 1.The government will adopt “camp approach” for mass implementation, with a 12-hour operational help desk in Delhi to sort out any issues. The staff deputed for implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in districts will be providing field support for GSA-2.Other schemes selected for saturation are immunisation programme for children and pregnant women under Mission Indradhanush, PM Jan Dhan Yojana, PM Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana, PM Suraksha Bima Yojana and Ujjwala Yojana for distribution of LED bulbs.