In a decision that could change the sanitation scenario
in villages, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday Aug 11,2015 announced
supply of 25,000 cycle-rickshaws to gram panchayats for collection of
garbage, allocation of sites for garbage yards, graveyards and
construction of soak pits to address the problem of drainage water.
The Chief Minister made the announcements at a day-long
meeting on Grama Jyothi programmes held on the campus of Agricultural
University here and attended by several ministers, senior officers,
collectors, joint collectors, police officers, zilla parishad chief
executive officers, district panchayat officers and mandal level change
agents.
He also announced increasing the limit of
expenditure of gram panchayats to 50 per cent of their income from the
existing 30 per cent. The relaxation would enable the panchayats to
increase the salaries of their sanitation workers and other staff.
One cycle-rickshaw would be given for every 750 population and their maintenance would be taken care of by the village local bodies
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