Khammam: All the assets and properties of 427 panchayats in Khammam district were updated in the National Asset Directory (NAD), which is one of the software applications envisaged as part of Phase II of e-Panchayat of the Model Mission Project. It aims to keep stock of all assets created, from streetlights to government lands, controlled and maintained by rural local bodies and urban local bodies. Each asset of each panchayat was assigned a code for its unique identification.
There are 10 to 15 assets in gram panchayats and some villages had more than that. It is found that the local bodies have not been maintaining these assets properly and government lands worth crores of rupees have been encroached upon and alienated. Further, the Central government has been pumping lakhs of rupees into the panchayats to create assets.
The government is finding it difficult to get land to construct pucca assets with the encroachments in many of the panchayats. Precise information on government assets was felt to be the need of the hour by the Central government in such a scenario. Such a situation can be checked with the NAD. Each and every asset of the government can be protected in the system.
The government can use it for effective utilisation of the assets.
Not only assigning a code to the asset, but also a photo of the asset will be upgraded in the NAD. The NAD App will work in both online and offline mode. The asset will be captured with latitude and longitude with higher accuracy and it can be viewed on Google Maps.
There are 7,084 assets in the 427 panchayats and Bonakal stood in first place with 695 assets, followed by Mudigonda with 653 assets. The assets like government lands, schools, veterinary hospitals, government hospitals, anganwadi buildings, CC roads, streetlights, burial grounds, bank buildings, power poles, network towers, water resources and others were counted and tagged.
Some of the panchayat secretaries were imparted training in how to update the assets in the NAD. Kusumanchi is in last place with 59 assets and Kallur with 71 assets.
