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Grand budget for Grama Jyothi
Grand budget for Grama Jyothi. In order to give a boost to rural development through timely release of adequate funds, Chief Minister K Chadrashekar Rao has taken a decision to implement a new scheme called ‘Grama Jyothi’, according to sources.
KCR to launch scheme to speed up rural development on I-Day
Hyderabad: In order to give a boost to rural development through timely release of adequate funds, Chief Minister K Chadrashekar Rao has taken a decision to implement a new scheme called ‘Grama Jyothi’, according to sources.
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The scheme is likely to be launched on August 15. A whopping Rs 25,000 crore will be spent on implementing the scheme over a five-year period for all round village development. The Chief Minister is planning to conduct a district collectors’ conference on July 30 to prepare a comprehensive plan of action, according to official sources.
The CM is learnt to have taken a decision to spend huge funds for the speedy development of villages which will connect districts through mandal headquarters. Based on the population of major gram panchayats and villages, the government will release Rs 2 cr to 6 cr for taking up works related to basic amenities and better connectivity.
The decision comes at a time when Panchayat Raj Minister K T Rama Rao held a review meeting with the officials for rural development. The villages are most likely to get a facelift in terms of water, power, education, health, better roads and other facilities to the people.
The scheme is aimed at strengthening Panchayat Raj system and to allow gram panchayats to formulate their own development plans. Meanwhile, KCR is learnt to have constituted a Cabinet sub-committee to frame modalities for the scheme. The sub-committee led by Rao’s son and Minister K Taraka Rama Rao will submit its report in 15 days.
A statement from the Chief Minister's Office said he would hold a meeting with officials of Panchayat Raj, Planning and Rural Development departments and district collectors on July 30 to discuss implementation of the scheme. Rao said a unique feature of the scheme would be freedom to gram panchayats to formulate their own development plans based on their requirements.
The Chief Minister said a village would decide on what development works should be undertaken. The government will make funds available for those works. The government has already taken an initiative with the programme ‘Our Village Our Plan’ under which gram panchayats took inputs from people to draft their plans.
