Panchayat System

After holding the panchayat elections the government has taken a lot of steps to empower the panchayats and also to make the building for the panchayats ghars in every village.

In this direction recently in a review meeting Commissioner Secretary rural development was informed in the Ganderbal district regarding Panchayat Ghar status she was informed that 92 Panchayat Ghars are available out of 126 Panchayats of the district for which she directed the DC that land shall be identified in other panchayats at an earliest so that Panchayat Ghar are also constructed in these panchayat in a time bound manner.  She also asked the DC to take review regarding the facilities in these panchayat Ghars including furniture, water, electricity, Internet and other required facilities and submit the report adding all panchayats will be connected to Internet facility as most of the programs like LG Mulakat/meetings are conducted virtually and to facilitate the PRIs to participate in such programs in their offices.

Regarding PMAY(G) SECC, the ACD informed the Commissioner Secretary that the approved target was 279 for the year 2021-22 which is 100 percent achieved and under PMAY-G-non SECC Rs 276.5 lakh is expenditure till date out of Rs 480 lakh available funds for the district. Similarly, under SBM (G) Rs 95.35 lakh expenditure is achieved against Rs 127.05 lakh funds available. The Commissioner Secretary complemented the district administrations for achieving the targets in various schemes and emphasized that endeavor must be to achieve targets in full and urged all the officers of RDD to work with added zeal and dedication so that all taken up works are physically and financially completed in current fiscal with no spillovers into next Financial Year.