Mumbai, Dec 7 (PTI) The first Saturday of every monthwill be kept reserved for the sarpanch of villages to discussproblems, Women and Child Welfare minister Pankaja Munde saidtoday.
Munde was speaking after she held a 'Sarpanch Darbar'at Mantralaya today where she heard their views on villagedevelopment.
"The first Saturday of every month will be keptreserved for sarpanch and they will be contacted throughsocial media. A sarpanch is an important component of ruraldevelopment and thus efforts will be made to understand theproblems of villages and solve them through this initiative,"she said.
She added that the number of elected young sarpanchin the state is high for the first time in the state and thatthey will be trained about the development of villages and ofvarious government schemes.
She urged them to take efforts to make villages opendefecation and sewage free.
Munde asked them to study various schemes of thegovernment and effectively implement them.
"The government is positive about giving an honorariumto the sarpanch. They will also be provided with identitycards," she said.
Munde further said that many drinking water schemesare incomplete in villages and that the issue will beresolved by holding a meeting with Water Supply ministerBabanrao Lonikar during the Winter session of MaharashtraLegislature in Nagpur. PTI MMBNM.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.