Statesman News Service
MALDA, Dec. 19. — The Malda district administration yesterday organised a workshop to set up village development society in order to decentralise power at the gram panchayat level. Though there is a gram sansad in the three-tier panchayat system to adopt an action plan of the rural development collecting opinion of each villagers of a “polling station” under a gram panchayat , the government is planning to form a body of GUS comprising the local villagers irrespective of their political identity where the women will be get priority in terms of decision-making. Today, the government officials including the state officials trained some persons as resource persons for collecting data from three gram panchayat of 15 blocks in this district in order to introduce it as the pilot project.The workshop will continue for three day. The newly-formed body will take up various programmes for the betterment of their society and formulate plans to development them in the social sectors like literacy, hygiene and public health. It may be noted that the government officials including the chief minister of the state, Mr Buddhdeb Bhatacharjee, failed to fulfil the main objective of forming gram sansad and the past experience has also being bitter due to reluctance of the elected political panchayat leaders at each gram panchayat.
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