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Government’s ‘Back to Village Programme’

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The programme has witnessed the cooperation of village people as they took it as their own programme and there is enough enthusiasm among the villagers for the programme. Under this initiative a gazetted officer stays for a night or two in the villages and knows the grievances and demands of the villagers and also acquaints himself with the gross root situation and conditions prevailing in the villages. In fact, the initiative will transform the village life and it has evoked good response from the villagers. It is in fact taking the governance to village level and meeting the problems of villagers and also taking the feedback from the public about the government schemes and projects and giving such feedback to higher levels of bureaucracy for its further refinement in future.


At the outset chief Secretary B.V.R Subramanyam held a marathon meeting with the administrative secretaries in Civil Secretariat. The divisional commissioners of , and Ladakh participated in the meeting through video conferencing. Specifying the objectives of the programme Chief Secretary said ‘Back to Village Programme' will focus on four main goals – energizing panchayats, collecting feedback on delivery on government schemes/programmes, capturing specific economic potential and understanding assessment of the needs of the villages besides affording an opportunity to gazetted officers to visit the villages.
The programme will involve the people of the villages and the government officials/officers in a joint effort to deliver the mission of equitable development across all over rural area. The programme will energize all 4483 panchayats. It will direct development efforts through community participation. The programme will create in rural masses an urge and desire for decent standard of living. As part of the programme each gazetted officer will be assigned a Gram Panchayat where he/she will stay for at least two days including a night halt in the village to interact and get feedback from Panchayat representatives, village elders and other local people about their concerns, developmental needs and economic potential of the area.
The feedback from the villagers will help the administration to tailor the schemes and plans to better the life of the rural people. Under this programme entire administrative set up of the state is visiting all 4483 panchayat halqas to get the gross root level feedback from the general public. Government has deployed one gazette officer as nodal officer in each panchayat halqua who is interacting with panchayat members and general public to get the general feedback. The Back to village programme has picked up momentum in all the 22 districts of the state with the district level officers, tehsil level officers and block level officers and officials visiting their areas to interact with the villagers and knowing their problems and getting the much required feedback. Meanwhile Chief Secretary BVR Subramanyam visited Nadihal – C Panchayat in Bandipore block and interacted with the people. He reviewed the working of panchayats and the implementation of Back to Village Programme.

(The writer is a columnist and a social activist)

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