The Rural Development recently in the meeting announced to conduct Gram Sabha at every panchayat, block and district levels to strengthen the grass-root level structure in planning and implementing social welfare programmes. The programme will be initiated from October 19 on a large scale at every district as per the instructions issued by CM Raghubar Das on October 2 on the vision of boosting the active participation of all community members in development.
“The programme starting from October 19 will continue till October 31 drafting out a composite plan for development covering all facets for different years. The five members’ panchayat planning team has been constituted to moderate and facilitate the procedure as per the instructions issued. The Gram Vikash Yojana Schemes will cover all aspects to strengthen the gram Sabha in planning schemes as per the requirement of particular village,” said, Ranchi DC Manoj Kumar while briefing the media about the programme.
“Under the guidance of panchayat planning team, all villages have to prepare a vision documents on issues covering 15 years plan and ‘Yojana’ documents for three years looking at every perspective. All senior officials will also monitor the programme and have been instructed to ensure active participation of village people in this ambitious project,” added Kumar.
In Ranchi district the programme will be started from Kanke village by the Rural Development Minister, Nilkanth Singh Munda in the presence of other officials on October 19. State Resource Team has also been involved and linked up with the task to ensure that the documentation work is carried out on proper guidelines giving equal importance to all the feasible areas identified. All personnel have been trained by the resource personnel of SIRD for conducting the documentation programme.