President Pranab Mukherjee will launch the scheme ‘smart village’ on July 2 to develop five villages in Haryana adopted by him.
Mukerjee had recently adopted five villages namely Alipur, Daula, Harchandpur and Tajnagar of district Gurgaon and Rozka Meo of district Mewat to develop them as ‘smart village’.
A team from Rashtrapati Bhawan Secretariat on Tuesday visited these five villages. The team included Director, Rashtrapati Bhawan Secretariat, NK Sudhanshu, Officer on Special Duty to President, Abhijeet Rai, representative of National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), Krishan Gaur and NIC Delhi, SD Sharma.
The team also held a brief meeting with Deputy Commissioner Gurgaon, TL Satyaprakash and heads of Agriculture, Power Utilities, Public Health Engineering, Health, Education and other aligned departments.
During the meeting, it was informed that the scheme would be launched by President on July 2 in the presence of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal, in a function at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi.
NK Sudhanshu said that a delegation of villagers from these five villages and officers concerned would be invited in this function at Rashtrapati Bhawani. He said that other villagers would be able to see the proceedings of the function on LED screen in their villages.
President would also interact directly with the villagers and students in their respective villages through webcast. After the launch, meetings of Gram Sabhas would be organised on July 3 and 4 for discussing issues with the villagers.
On July 3, Gram Sabha meetings would be held in villages Alipur and Tajnagar, and on July 4, meetings would be held at villages Daula, Harchandpur and Rozka Meo. The team from Rashtrapati Bhawan would also attend these meetings.
After these meetings, a five-day training course for villagers on general issues like agriculture, irrigation and sanitation would also be organised in each of these villages, said Sudhanshu.
He said that a survey of present infrastructure and facilities available in these villages would be conducted and ‘Village Development Plan’ would be prepared in consultation with the villagers on the pattern of ‘Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana’. Provision of adequate electricity supply, drinking water supply, health and sanitation facilities would be made on priority basis in these villages.
These would be provided through convergence method, by roping in schemes of Centre and State Governments, utilising Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) and private institutions and researches conducted by universities. Cooperation would also be sought from the villagers, he added
Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner would be programme leader under whose guidance this scheme would be implemented and Additional Deputy Commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh would serve as coordinator.
President to launch scheme to develop 5 adopted villages
