The village panchayats in Haryana would be allowed to approve a project amounting up to Rs 20 lakh and carry out development works at their own level.
There are 6,204 panchayats in Haryana and this provision of budget for gram sabhas has been made for the first time in the state.
“From January 26 onwards, the village panchayats (excluding district Jind in view of bypoll) would be able to carry out development works at their own level,” said Haryana Development and Panchayats Minister OP Dhankar on Wednesday.
“The panchayats have been authorised to carry out any one important development work as per the need of the village concerned. With this, Haryana would be the first state where such power has been delegated to gram sabhas,” Dhankar said while taking to the mediapersons here.
The Minister said that the gram sabhas in Haryana would organise special meeting on January 26, on the occasion of Republic Day and approve a work which would be in true spirit of democracy to further strengthen it.