The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Trivendra Singh Rawat has congratulated the public representatives and villagers of three village Panchayats of the State that have been selected for Panchayati Raj Awards by the Union Government.
On Thursday, the Belpadav gram panchayat of Kotabagh block of Nainital district was awarded with the ‘Child friendly gram panchayat award’. Similarly the Nanaji Deshmukh Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha award, 2020 was awarded to Kheldi village Panchayat of Bhadarabad block of Hardiwar district. The Kedarwala gram panchayat of Vikasnagar, Dehradun was selected for ‘Gram Panchayat development plan award, 2020.
On the occasion of the Rashtriya Panchayat Diwas-2020, the CM held telephonic conversation with many panchayat representatives on Friday and thanked them for supporting the government’s actions to prevent spread of COVID-19.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the panchayat representatives of the country on the day and the CM Rawat listened the programme at his office. The minister for Panchayati raj, Arvind Pandey listened the address of PM with villagers at Village Panchayat Jainagar, Gadarpur in Udham Singh Nagar district while the additional secretary, Panchayati Raj H C Semwal and other senior officials of the department were present at Panchayati raj directorate in Dehradun to listen the PM’s address.
The Panchayati Raj department also released a documentary on the occasion which can be seen in the U tube channel of Department of Panchayati Raj.
In the documentary the department has included the quotes of union minister for Panchayati Raj, Narendra Singh Tomar, Uttarakhand cabinet minister Arvind Pandey, senior officials of department and many representatives of Panchayats.