The district administration has prepared an action plan for developing 10 villages in each development block as ‘model villages’ with work already started for its implementation, officials said.
The administration has selected 10 villages each in panchayats in all the nine development blocks of the district for developing them as ‘model villages.’ This programme has been named as “Mera Gaon-Mera Teerath.”
District Panchayat CEO Taran Prakash Sinha while holding a meeting of Janpad Panchayat CEOs of Navagarh, Pamgarh, Akaltara, Baloda and Bamhnideed and sarpanchs, secretaries and employment assistants of selected village panchayats provided them detailed information of the programme and issued necessary instructions for better implementation of it within the set time limit.
Sinha said that it was not a new programme, but for better implementation of convergence of different public welfare schemes of the Government at village-level at by ensuring participation of Gram Sabhas in it.
In the selected village panchayats, system of open defecation will totally be stopped, all the government schools will be made as model schools, Aanganwadis will be given better appearance, pure drinking water will be supplied to the villagers, health facilities will be strengthened, women groups will be financially empowered and career guidance will be given to youths in different trades.
Similarly, in these village panchayats, work will be done for continuous livelihood and skill development, awareness against social abuses, participation of villagers in Gram Sabhas and better management of natural resources available in village panchayats.
In this work, schemes of Panchayat and Rural Development, Education, Woman and Child Development, Public Health Engineering and Health departments would be converged, Sinha said.
Under this programme, toilets will be constructed in cent per cent houses under Nirmal Bharat Programme, special efforts would be made for increasing education quality in all government schools, purification of water sources, training to villagers in water testing, strengthening of services being given to mothers and children at Aanganwadis, development of Aanganbadis as Play School etc will be done. Besides, better management of natural resources like water, land and forest available in the village panchayat will be done. On every Monday, presence of all village level employees will be ensured in the Village Panchayat. One Nodal Officer each has been appointed for these village panchayats, who will monitor all works on a regular basis.