VIJAYAWADA: Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan has announced that the state government has taken three key decisions, holding gram sabhas across 13,326 panchayats, conducting a pulse survey on utilisation of Jal Jeevan Mission funds, and increasing funds to panchayats for holding Independence Day and Republic Day celebrations. “These three measures, aimed at reviving and strengthening village panchayats and sarpanch …
Published : Jul 13, 2023 11:00 IST - 9 MINS READ In a good crop season, Rami Soren, 42, from Gangamunda village in Kankadahad block of Odisha’s Dhenkanal district, travels 35 kilometres twice a week to sell his agricultural produce in the town market. Marked as “zero villages” in census reports, forest villages do not feature in revenue records. “Since …
The Panchayati Raj, first adopted by Nagaur in Rajasthan on October 2, 1959, has expanded vastly. The People’s Plan Campaign and Vibrant Gram Sabha Dashboard, rolled out this year, aspire to strengthen the Panchayati Raj system by making gram sabhas more vibrant. When the traditional top-down disaster response system was compromised during the bad months of the pandemic, it was …
