Budgetary demands for Panchayats, Rural Development and Social Justice and Cooperatives departments were passed in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday after reply of department’s minister Gopal Bhargawa.
Bhargawa informed the house that the State Government’s top priority is making arrangements of potable water in rural areas while the Government would provide rebate of ten per cent on actual amount to the farmers on loans taken by them. “An amount of Rs1400 crore has been allocated to the village Panchayats of the state to get rid of the potable water crisis, of this the first installment of over 50 per cent of the amount that is Rs750 crore has already been released. All 52,000 villages of the state would be made smart,” the minister told the house over discussions on budgetary demands of his departments.
Bhargawa further said, “Every village Panchayat would be provided with a minimum of Rs6 lakh for development works. A well equipped stadium costing Rs80 lakh would be constructed in every assembly constituency of the State. This would help enhance rural sporting talent. Besides play grounds accessories necessary for the sports would also be provided.”
He said that the work of construction of community centers is going on and that 1000 community centers would be constructed at such places that lack community centers. Work of construction of 6800 Panchayat Bhawans is also going on of that 2818 Panchayat Bhawans have already been constructed and construction of 4000 Bhawans in progress. Amount of Rs15 lakh is made available directly to the Panchayats for the construction of these Bhawans, he added.
He informed the house that MP is the first state of the country that has constructed over 64,000 kilometers of road under Prime Minister Rural Road Scheme.
The form of MNREGA has been improved last year cent per cent expenditure of Rs4, 000 crore was in it. Food is being made available to 64.11 lakh students under the mid day meal scheme, he added.