Kuther panchayat to get award

Our Correspondent

Nurpur, April 22

The Kuther gram panchayat in the Nagrota Surian development block of Jawali subdivision has set an example in rural development, infrastructure development and implementation of all programmes launched by the Centre and state government. This panchayat has been selected among 20 gram panchayats from all over the country for the national-level Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Award-2107 after appraisal of its performance during 2015-16.

This panchayat took the lead in getting declared open defecation free (ODF) in Kangra district and became eligible for Rs 5 lakh special development fund announced by Kangra MP Shanta Kumar. It has successfully launched Swachh Bharat Mission by keeping its panchayat neat and clean besides constructing separate toilets of boys and girls in all government schools in the panchayat and fulfilled all yardsticks laid down by the Centre under the Swachh Bharat programme. It has installed 140 solar streetlights in different wards of the panchayat. The panchayat has also built a crematorium under government’s Vikas Mein Jan Sahyog scheme.

The panchayat has built its own panchayat bhawan where a well-furnished conference hall, veterinary dispensary, community hall and a fair price shop are running under the same roof. Significantly, members of a single family are being elected for the posts of pradhan and up-pradhan since 1945 and presently, Veena Devi is the elected pradhan and her husband Sushil Kumar is up-pradhan of this panchayat.

Sushil Kumar, up-pradhan of Kuther gram pancahyat, said the panchayat representatives would receive the national award from Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the National Panchayati Raj Day celebrations on April 24.

Why this panchayat

• The Kuther gram panchayat in the Nagrota Surian development block of the Jawali subdivision excelled in infrastructure development and implementation of all programmes launched by the Centre and state government
• It has been selected among 20 gram panchayats from all over the country