Secretary Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Sheetal Nanda, today flagged off the third batch of Sarpanchs on a five day training cum exposure visit to Uttarakhand.
The purpose of the visit is to expose the participants to the best practices, to make them interact with the beacon leaders, learn about implementation of flagship schemes in the state of Uttarakhand.
Secretary held a brief interaction with the batch of Sarpanchs, drawn from various districts of the UT, before flagging off them from Panchayat Bhawan Jammu today. She informed that the Department of Panchayati Raj, Uttarakhand has organised the training visit very meticulously under the guidance of HC Semwal, Director, Panchayati Raj Uttarakhand. She exhorted upon the visiting Sarpanchs to take maximum advantage of the field exposure tour so that the best practices learnt gets replicated in various Panchayats of J&K.
During the visit, Sarpanchs shall be exposed to various activities being carried out including Solid Liquid Waste Management, generation of Own Source Revenue, Preparation of Budget, Integration of labour budget under MGNREGA with GPDP and SDGs, Integration of Panchayat Development plans at various tiers, Panchayat Enterprise Suit applications etc.