Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao envisioned an out of box thinking for the comprehensive development of villages aiming at “clean village by all means” against the backdrop of new Panchayati Raj Act. CM said that in the coming three months an action plan has to be evolved for the comprehensive development of villages and during the first month, the activity on cleaning the village has to be taken-up.
CM said that the cleaning campaign shall commence from August 15, 2018-Independence Day and to be over in a month. The CM desired that the salaries and allowances of necessary village Panchayati Raj staff in general and sanitation staff, in particular, should be enhanced.
Making full utilization of MGNAREGA funds, weeding out unnecessary plants, removal of debris, gravelling of all water logging pits, motivating villagers for sramadan, developing independent nurseries, village cleaning, Haritha haram etc are some of the activities the CM asked the officers concerned in the Panchayati Raj department to take up for the overall development of villages.
CM KCR reviewing the department activities with specific reference to village panchayats said that, “It is unfortunate that PR institutions were not functioning on expected lines and hence requires a total rehaul. Panchayati Raj is in fact not a department but a was a moment.
Both Panchayati Raj moment and Cooperative moment were failures in the erstwhile governments. People are not aware the united strength that they derive if they work together. Then the CM KCR suggest that..
• MGNAREGA funds are to be fully utilized and a visible change has to come within the next three months
• Decide on targets as to what has to be achieved in the next one month, two months and three months
• The first appearance in any village in the form of dirtiness shall disappear at any cost
• Special officers and panchayat secretaries of the village Panchayaths shall motivate villagers to participate in sramadan once a week
• Special officers and secretaries should undertake padayatras with elders of villages once in a while
• Each village shall have its own independent nursery. They shall collect the indents from farmers and house owners of their requirement of saplings
