(BS)
The central government will launch a campaign covering over 250,000 gram panchayats across the country on October 2. Christened ‘Sabki Yojana, Sabka Vikas’, the campaign will involve people at the grassroots while preparing structured gram panchayat development plans, along with a thorough audit of the works done in the last few years.
The mega campaign, to start on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary, will be conducted just before the elections in three major BJP-ruled states and also before the 2019 general elections. Under the campaign, which will conclude in December, all gram panchayats in the country will have to put up a notice board detailing the work done by it in the last few years, funds received from various sources, details of their allocation and also what developmental activities it plans to undertake in the 2018-19 financial year.
Gram sabha meetings will be made mandatory where trained assistants related to all 29 sectors assigned to gram panchayats, according to the 11th schedule of the constitution, will have to be present. The sectors include agriculture, rural housing, drinking water, poverty alleviation programmes, social welfare, cultural activities, market and fairs, etc.
