Acting on the Centre’s instruction, the Pauri district administration is now gearing up for the Gram Swaraj Abhiyan which would be held in all the gram panchayats of the district from April 14 to May 5 to mark the birth anniversary of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, the principal architect of the Constitution, which falls on April 14. The district magistrate of Pauri, Sushil Kumar has entrusted the task of organising the multi-phased event with the district heads of several departments like agriculture, education and health while chairing a meeting on Thursday.
He further mentioned that Pauri Zila Panchayat would be felicitated by the Prime Minister for excellent work it has done at the district level. “The programmes to be organised on the occasion would be directly monitored by the Centre,” DM said, adding that the Centre’s observers might make unannounced inspection of the gram sabhas to see whether the programmes marked for the occasion are being help in the appropriate manner or not.
DM said that the social welfare department would conduct a commemorative programme across the district on April 14 to mark the birth anniversary of Babasaheb and on April 18, a programme would be held at Neelkanth under Yamkeshwar block under the Swach Bharat Mission which would be presided over by the DM.
On April 20, LPG gas connection would be distributed among some people under Ujjwala Yojana while on April 24, a programme would be held in Paubo block by the Panchayat Raj department and seminars would be organised from gram panchayat to the district level on the themes of women empowerment, women health, vaccination and social development.
On April 28, a programme would be held in Nainidanda block during which some people would be benefited under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and Pradhan Mantri Sobhagya Yojana and on April 30, Ayushmann Bharat Diwas would be observed.
DM further said that on May 2, the agriculture department would organise Kisan Kalyan Diwas and on May 5, a programme would be organised under National Rural Livelihood Mission.