Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday stated the COVID-19 challenge earlier than the nation now’s bigger than the last yr and referred to as for making efforts to make sure that the infectious illness is stopped from hitting villages
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday stated the COVID-19 challenge earlier than the nation now’s bigger than the last yr and referred to as for making efforts to make sure that the infectious illness is stopped from hitting villages “by all means”.
Addressing a ceremony on Panchayati Raj Diwas throughout which Modi launched the distribution of e-property playing cards beneath the ‘SWAMITVA scheme, he stated the pandemic was prevented from affecting rural areas last yr and exuded confidence that the success will be replicated as native leaders now have expertise in addition to data.
Chief ministers of eight states joined the occasion, held just about, whereas a lot of native physique representatives additionally related to the ceremony.
“I’ve this confidence that if somebody goes to emerge victorious first on this battle towards the coronavirus, then it goes to be India’s villages, the management of those villages.
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The individuals of the villages will present the way in which to the nation and the world,” the prime minister stated.
Right now, the mantra of the panchayats needs to be “dawai bhi, kadai bhi” (medication in addition to warning), he pressured.
Modi stated villages ought to observe the rules issued by the federal government and folks must also get themselves vaccinated.
To assist the poor get meals, his authorities has determined to offer them free ration for May and June, the prime minister famous, including this may profit over 80 crore individuals and value the federal government Rs 26,000 cr.
As many as 4.
09 lakh property homeowners have been be given their e-property playing cards, which additionally marked the rolling out of the SWAMITVA scheme for implementation throughout the nation.
Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar attended the occasion.
Modi additionally conferred the National Panchayat Awards 2021 on the event.
The National Panchayat Awards 2021 have been conferred beneath the next classes — Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar to 224 panchayats, Nanaji Deshmukh Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Puraskar to 30 gram panchayats, Gram Panchayat Development Plan Award to 29 gram panchayats, child-friendly Gram Panchayat Award to 30 Gram Panchayats and e-Panchayat Puraskar to 12 states.
The prime minister transferred the award cash, ranging from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 50 lakh, as grants-in-aid, by clicking a button, the PMO stated.
The quantity might be instantly transferred to the checking account of the panchayats involved in real-time, the federal government stated, including that that is being completed for the primary time.
The SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas) scheme was launched by the prime minister on April 24, 2020, as a central scheme to advertise a socio-economically empowered and self-reliant rural India.
The scheme has the potential to remodel rural India utilizing trendy technical instruments of mapping and surveying.
It paves the way in which for utilizing the property as a monetary asset by villagers for availing loans and different monetary advantages, a press release stated.
The scheme will cowl round 6.
62 lakh villages of all the nation between 2021 and 2025, it stated.
The pilot section of the scheme was carried out throughout 2020-2021 in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and choose villages of Punjab and Rajasthan.
