The primary needs of every village and its residents are own house, school, a lake and good roads.Gamju, a remote village under Takhatpur Janpad Panchayat in Bilaspur district and its dwellers are lucky enough that they have been enjoying all these basic facilities for the last five years.
During the last five years, thanks to the efforts made by Chief Minister Raman Singh, concrete bylanes, good roads, Aanganwadi, school, Godown, Panchayat building, houses under Indira Awas project, public and private toilets, cultural stage have been constructed in Gamju Village Panchayat and its dependent Pare Mohalle village.
Now Gamju has every right to be called the best ‘Village Panchayat’ in Takhatpur Development Block.
The willpower of the 26-year-old Sarpanch Purushottam Kashyap and better implementation of rural schemes of Chhattisgarh Government have written a new story of development in Gamju Village Panchayat, which has 90 per cent tribal population. Gamju has two dependent villages — Navagaon and Tingipur.
During 2010-11, a total of ten houses under Indira Awas project were constructed at a cost of Rs 45,000 each in the village panchayat.
In 2012-13, a Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendra costing Rs 10 lakh, Muktidham shed of Rs 2.65 lakh, godown worth Rs 5 lakh, community hall costing Rs 4.5 lakh, five bylanes with a cost of Rs 17 and primary school building costing Rs 4 lakh were constructed. In the year 2013-14, three Indira Awas were constructed with a cost of Rs 70,000 each.
In the dependent village, Tingipur, a primary school and boundary wall, middle school boundary wall, additional room and kitchen shed in both primary and middle schools, Aanganwadi building, cultural stage were constructed. Under MNREGA, 800 metre long seven roads were constructed.
Sarpanch Purushottam Kashyap says that the concept of village development and implementation is a continuous process. Now several developmental works have to be done. During the last five years, Gamju is being considered as a mode village of Takhatpur block, he added.