Sarpanches can undertake works up to Rs 21 lakh: Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini
Kurukshetra, July 3
With the Assembly elections approaching, the Haryana Government, in an attempt to appease the sarpanches, announced a slew of standard operating procedures for them yesterday.
While addressing the panchayat representatives at the state-level ‘Panchayati Raj and Sarpanch Sammelan’, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini announced that the sarpanches could now undertake development works up to Rs 21 lakh in their gram panchayats without e-tendering. Earlier, it was limited to Rs 5 lakh.
They can now claim travel expenses at the rate of Rs 16 per km while using their car or taxi for works related to the gram panchayat.
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