A total of 12,840 basic work involving a cost outlay of Rs180 crore has so far been completed under grants offered by the State Government for financial year 2012-13 from the head of village panchayats account in the State. A total of 1,530 work at the village panchayat level is underway, according to an official release issued on Tuesday.
Panchayat and Village Development Minister Hemchand Yadav said that all the village panchayats are offered grants to meet their basic requirement for carrying out works in their respective jurisdictions.
He said that the State Government has provisioned Rs 300 crore in the budget for meeting financial requirement of village panchayats in
carrying out works in their respective regions.
During the past four years, a total of 1.30 lakh different kinds of work were approved at the village panchayat level costing Rs560 crore, the Minister said.
Out of the total 1.30 lakh work, 1,026,394 lakh work were completed while 4,000 are under completion.
As per the recommendations of Chhattisgarh State Finance Commission under the Panchayat Raj Act 1993, Section 49, the village panchayats had been assigned the task of
carrying out basic works in their regions, Yadav said.
The basic work includes provision of clean drinking water, deepening and restoration of lakes, installation of hand pumps, construction of drinking water tanks for installation of hand pumps under 'Gaon Ganga Yojna', maintenance and construction of primary and secondary school buildings, construction and maintenance of health centres and maternity homes, grants for managing the Gram Sachivalaya (Village Secretarat), arranging books for Swami Atmanand library, arranging foodgrains for the needy, construction of approach roads which connect to the main roads, expansion of lighting at squares and payment of electricity bills, he added.