Gujarat Congress releases vision doc for Panchayati Raj institutions

Ahead of the rural and semi-urban local bodies elections,Gujarat Congress today released a vision document for the Panchayati Raj institutions.

Some of the promises made in the document ‘Rejuvenation of Panchayat’- include hike in salary for Sarpanchs, more grant allocation, additional power to the institutions in utilising these grants, disbursement of grants directly to Sarpanchs and creation of pachayat finance board.

Gujarat Congress president Bharatsinh Solanki accused the BJP-led state government of keeping all the powers with them, which is “against the spirit of Panchayati Raj”.

“According to a recent survey, Gujarat’s Panchayati Raj institutions, that is district, taluka and village panchayats, ranked 18th in India. This shows how the BJP government destroyed this set-up here.

“This government has curtailed 98 per cent of total budget previously alloted to these institutions,” Solanki alleged after releasing the document.

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