Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar lal will honour 1,103 village panchayats with State Village title in Chandigarh on July 10.
State Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, O.P. Dhankar on Monday said that after presenting the example of educated panchayats among all other states, Haryana has also become the first state to honour the village panchayats with the title of Star Village ratings for outstanding performance on the basis of social norms.
He said that of total 6,204 villages, 1,120 villages have been given the title of State Village, which is 18 per cent of total villages. He said that the villages with six star and five star ratings had been honoured by the Governor, Kaptan Singh Solanki at Haryana Raj Bhavan here on July 6.
Dhankar said that district Ambala was leading with 407 star village rating followed by Gurugram with 199 star village and Karnal with 75 star village rating. He said that 1074 villages have been declared star village for maintaining peace and brotherhood, 567 star village for better education and 109 star village on the basis of improvement in sex ratio. Similarly under Rare Star Ranking category, 12 villages are selected for Good Governance and 17 villages for cleanliness.
He said village panchayats will be honoured with colourful stars. The village panchayats with better performance in sex ratio would be honoured with Pink Star and those reducing dropouts in education would be honoured with Blue Star. Similarly, White Star would be given to panchayats for cleanliness, Orange Star for peace and harmony, Green Star for environment conservation, Golden Star for good governance and Silver Star for social participation. He said that these villages can use these stars on the Gram Gaurav Pats and Gram Sachivalayas. Apart from this, the information of star villages would also be available on Department’s website, he added.