Kizhakkambalam and Aikkaranad panchayats, ruled by non-profit organisation Twenty20, has declared a surplus of ₹25 crore and ₹12 crore respectively at the end of the financial year 2024-25. The volume of funds is the accumulated surpluses over the past 10 years in Kizhakkambalam and over the past four years in Aikkaranad. A portion of the … Read more
A model of the hanging solar fencing at Marayur forest division in Idukki. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Forest department has decided to install hanging solar fences at Marayur and Kanthaloor panchayats in Idukki to tackle man-animal conflict. According to officials, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has allotted a total … Read more
Sports should become a part of life, Finance Minister K. N. Balagopal said here on Saturday. He was inaugurating the construction of a stadium at Kareepra Kuzhimathicaud Government Higher Secondary School. “Being physically active is important at a time when lifestyle diseases are increasing. The government’s policy is to upgrade the playgrounds in all panchayats. … Read more
The Communist Party of India-Marxist will organise a roundtable conference on the problems faced by village panchayats in the State, here on July 11. CPI(M) state secretary V. Srinivasa Rao, in a statement on Sunday, requested the State government to immediately release the 15th Finance Commission funds to the village panchayats. Also, the State government … Read more
The policy initiative declaring thandas and gudems (habitations) with more than 500 population as gram panchayats has resulted in over 3,140 thandas now receiving benefits on a par with other rural local bodies. Representational Photo. | Photo Credit: Deepak KR After converting several tribal hamlets or ‘thandas’ into gram panchayats to establish self-rule, the State … Read more
The second tranche of funds amounting to ₹1 crore has been sanctioned to 18 panchayats in Chittoor that unanimously elected their Sarpanches, said District Panchayat Officer Lakshmi. Speaking to the media here, the official said previously the Andhra Pradesh government had given ₹135 crore to the Sarpanches who were unanimously selected in the 2021 elections. … Read more
Citizen facilitation centres to be set up in grama panchayats in State Source link
A Division Bench of the Madras High Court has set aside an order passed by a single judge to exhume all bodies that had been buried on a land classified ‘ Vandi Pathai’ (cart track) in the revenue records of Navakurichi village in Attur taluk of Salem district and relocate the remains to two designated … Read more