Skip to main content

Launch of 'Gramoday Se Bharat Uday Campaign' on the occasion of 'Rashtriya Panchayati Raj Diwas'

Chandigarh, 24th April 2016:  The Chandigarh Administration with huge fervor has celebrated the 125th Birth Anniversary of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar with a series of events conducted throughout the city. Every day a short film on the life, contribution and achievements of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was organized for the people of various villages of Chandigarh.

In the memory of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar the Government of India has proposed to undertake a “Gramoday se Bharat Uday Abhiyan” in all the Gram Panchayats and Gram Sabhas of the country. The objective of the Abhiyan is to encourage Social hormony, promote farmers’ progress, improve livelihoods of the poor and strengthen Panchayati Raj system by educating them about the various initiatives/programmes/schemes undertaken by the Government.


Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi today launched 'Gramoday Se Bharat Uday Campaign' on the occasion of 'Rashtriya Panchayati Raj Diwas' in Jharkhand. The Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi addressed the Panchayati Raj Sammelan addressing around 3,000 Panchayat Representatives from all states of the country. The Prime Minister addressed the gathering, which was  beamed live to all the Gram Sabhas all over the country.
The Chandigarh Administration today organized a Gram shabha in village Daria, for the live telecasting of the speech of Hon’ble Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi.

Sh. Narendra Modi, Expressed his happiness of launching the Panchayat Raj program - Gramoday Se Bharat Uday - from the soil of Jharkhand. Addressing the gathering Sh. Narendra Modi said, “Don’t the villages deserve the same development just as we see in cities? Electricity, roads, water – our villages should have the best of these facilities as well”. He further said, “People Serving in the villages should think that they have an opportunity to do something transformative within their tenure”. Sh. Narendra Modi, motivated the women of the village to serve in the panchayats and show tremendous leadership in bringing all round development in the village.

Sh. Narendra Modi gave awards to States that have devolved maximum powers to Panchayats so far (Cumulative Devolution Index awards), i.e., Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Sikkim. 
Awards were also given to States that have devolved maximum powers to Panchayats in the last three years (Incremental Devolution Index awards) to Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim and Odisha. 
The States that have made greatest progress in aligning their laws to Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas Act 1996, which have been given for the first time, to Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. States that have made maximum efforts to e-enable Panchayats, i.e. Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal and Assam


In addition to this a new ‘Mandate of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj’ wasreleased along with the ‘Devolution Index Report’ by the Prime Minister on this occasion. 




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Administrator Launches Website of Sports Department Chandigarh

Chandigarh, 18 th  December 2018:  The website of Department of Sports, UT Chandigarh  http://www.sportsdeptt.chd. gov.in  has been launched today  by Hon’ble Governor Punjab & Administrator, U.T, Chandigarh, Shri. V. P. Singh Badnore, in the presence of Sh. Parimal Rai, IAS, Adviser to UT Administration,  Sh. J.M. Balamurugan, IAS, Secretary to Governor of Punjab, Sh. Arun kumar Gupta, IAS, Principle Secretary Home, Shri. Jitender Yadav, IAS, Secretary Sports. With launch of this website, Department of Sports, Chandigarh has taken leap in the direction of digital India by making their key services like; booking of stadiums, applying for membership, applying for scholarship,  applying for  sports  gradation  certificate  and also applying for cash  awards  online for the students ,  sports bodies  & sportsmen . Now everybody can avail these services with a click of the button. In the case of bookin...
Post a Comment
Read more

Pulse Polio Campaign

Chandigarh, 4 th   April, 2017:   Activities conducted for three days i.e. from 2nd – 4th April, 2017 during Pulse Polio Campaign ‘Do Boond Zindgi Ki’ to win the war of eradicating Polio from the society and to immunize the children in the age group of 0-5 Years with Oral Polio Drops were successfully completed today. The campaign was held for three days in which Day 1 was dedicated for Booth Round and Day 2 & 3 were planned for door to door visit to immunize all children of Chandigarh in this age group with Oral Polio drops. A total of 1, 00, 236 children were immunized with oral polio drops during pulse polio activity and 929 teams visited 2, 65, 042 Houses and immunized Children with oral polio drops on day 2 and 3. 'X’ houses will be covered in the coming days too to track the unimmunized children and give them polio drops. Department of Health, Police, Social Welfare, Transport and NCC Volunteers from different colleges of Chandigarh joined hands together in the...
Post a Comment
Read more

E auction of various commercial, residential and industrial sites to begin in Chandigarh

7th January 2019: Chandigarh Administration is about to begin the e auction process of various commercial, residential and industrial sites in Chandigarh. 10 residential sites on freehold basis,13 commercial sites on leasehold basis and 1 industrial site on leasehold basis are proposed to be e auctioned. The auction will be made public on 9th January 2019 at 9:00 AM and the documents can be submitted/EMD can be paid from 9th january till 23rd January 2019. Document/EMD approvals will be given from 24th January till 30th January. In addition to this the Estate Department will create a help desk at Estate Office Chandigarh on the above dates to create digital signatures of the applicants. Bidding will begin from 31st January (9:00 AM) till 4th February 2019 (till 4 PM)
Post a Comment
Read more