Bengaluru: Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister H.K. Patil on Saturday declared that the department has received 80,000 perspective plans from various gram panchayats that need almost zero funding.
After releasing a booklet – Namma Grama Namma Yojane (Our Village Our Plan) – here, he said that cleaner graveyards, full attendance in schools, institutional deliveries, and even ponds for birds and animals!
“These are the demands listed by the residents of 6,021 gram panchayats from across 29 districts as part of the state government's “Namma Grama, Namma Yojane” (Our Village, Our Plan), a project that gives people a forum to tell the government what they want done in their neighbourhoods,” he said.
Mr Patil claimed that these plans were evolved through participatory rural appraisal system. “The process is indeed revolutionary as these plans have been listed and finalised by the people during gram sabhas and ward sabhas and sent to the state government through taluk panchayats and district panchyats. In a way, these give the real pulse of the people,” he contended.
The RDPR’s change in approach from “Top to Bottom” to “From Bottom to Top” has led to a whopping 80,000 perspective plans.
