Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Monday announced that a budget of Rs3 crore has been released to each zila parishad for development works in the State.
He urged newly elected chairmen and vice chairmen of Zila Parishads to work with dedication to make programmes related to education, cleanliness, social security pension and ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ a grand success in their respective areas.
The Chief Minister while presiding over the meeting of newly elected chairmen and vice chairmen of Zila Parishads here said that it is being considered to increase the house rent allowance given to chairmen of Zila Parishad.
Regarding their powers, he said that the government is laying emphasis on decentralisation of power and public representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) could be assigned more responsibilities.
He said that the State Government is making arrangement for social audit to prepare estimates of development works. Therefore, an 11-member committee would be constituted in each village with consent of gram sabha, said the Chief Minister.
Giving suggestions for generating new sources of income for Zila Parishads, the Chief Minister said that commercial establishments could be operated on land belonging to Zila Parishad. He also asked them to organise yoga programmes in their respective areas on the occasion of International Yoga Day on June 21.
On the occasion, Development and Panchayats Minister, OP Dhankar urged the public representatives to take initiative to end factionism in villages and maintain unity and brotherhood.
He said that about 72,000 representatives have been elected to the PRIs, most of whom followed the ideology of BJP.
Dhankar suggested that members of Zila Parishads should set a target to resolve one issue in their area every year. He said that this year they should undertake to resolve all issues related to social security pensions in the form of a mission.