Workshop to be held to strengthen three-tier Panchayat Raj system

A one-day State-level workshop will be held at Bhopal on July 7 to further strengthen three-tier Panchayat raj system and for the effective implementation of Madhya Pradesh Panchayat Raj Evam Gram Swaraj Adhiniyam-1993. District Panchayat and Janpad Panchayat Presidents of all districts will participate in it. 

At the workshop, detailed information will be given to newly elected Panchayat representatives about departmental policies and programmes.Commissioner Panchayat Raj Raghuveer Shrivastava informed that Minister for Panchayats and Rural Development, Social Justice and Cooperatives Gopal Bhargava will inaugurate the workshop at 10 am. Addl CS Panchayats and Rural Development Aruna Sharma will also be present.

The workshop will be held at Hotel Amer Green on Hoshangabad Road. In the first session, Commissioner MNREGA Smita Bhardwaj and Director Samagra Social Secuity Mission Ajit Kumar will give a presentation on transferring benefits of beneficiary-oriented schemes directly in beneficiaries’ bank accounts. Information will be given about e-payment arrangements in Gram Panchayats through Panchayat Darpan web portal and uploading accounts details on the portal. In the second session, discussions will be held on the role and responsibility of three-tier Panchayat system in departmental schemes and programmes being implemented in rural areas and issues pertaining to empowerment of Panchayat Raj system.

In the third session, CEO of Rural Housing and Road development Authority Alka Upadhyay will inform about Mukhyamantri Aawas Mission’s salient features and provisions of Indira Aawas Yojana. Director Swachchhata Mission Hemwati Burman will give a presentation on better implementation of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan. Panchayat representatives will give suggestions for smooth implementation of three-tier Panchayat Raj arrangements to transform image of villages. Innovations made in various areas of the State will be shared.