- PLAN TO CONCRETE ALL VILLAGE LANES, PHIRNIS BESIDES SEWERAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMWITHIN NEXT THREE YEARS
- ALL VILLAGE FUNDS TO BE TRANSFERRED ONLINE IN PANCHAYAT ACCOUNTS
- MANDATORY FOR PANCHAYAT TO MAINTAIN ONLY SINGLE BANK ACCOUNT
- MOOTS COMPULSORY HALF YEARLY AUDIT OF PANCHAYATS SPENDING
okaying Rs. 13000 crore Rural Development Plan.
In a high level meeting of Special Core Group in which Rural Development
Minister Mr. Surjit Singh Rakhra, Revenue Minister Mr. Bikram Singh Majithia,
Finance Minister Mr. Parminder Singh Dhindsa, Education Minister Mr. Sikander
Singh Maluka besides various MLAs participated, the Deputy Chief Minister said
that this integrated Rural Development Plan would cover all the villages in
three years in a phased manner. He said that the focus of integrated RDP plan
would be complete concretization of all village lanes, phirnis besides
providing under ground piped sewerage network as per the model design approved
by him. He said that focus would be on maintaining quality control in work
execution, completion of allotted work within stipulated time and completing
the total development work of one village in one go.
Expressing
concern over poor financial management of the panchayat funds, Mr. Badal said
that Rural Development Department in future would transfer all the funds to
Panchayats through Central Banking System online and seek utilization
certificate of funds withdrawn from the bank accounts positively within one
week. He said that failure to submit utilization certificate would invite
criminal action. Mr. Badal said that the works in the villages have to be
executed by reputed infrastructure companies, who have to be allotted work of
all villages located in one block.
Asking the department to tone-up its lax audit system, Mr. Badal said that
instead of bi-yearly, the department would ensure complete audit of total
Panchayats spending. He said that Financial Systems have to be made foolproof;
systems leak proof and its compliance mandatory. He said that this could be
ensured by professional and timely audit of the accounts and the systems. He
asked Principal Secretary Finance to work out a
Special Audit System.
Special Audit System.
Prominent amongst those present in the meeting included Mr. Tota Singh, Former
Minister, Mr. Mantar Singh Brar, Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Mr. Manpreet
Singh Ayali, Mr. Daljeet Singh Cheema, Mr. Pargat Singh (all MLAs), Mr. Satish
Chandra, Principal Secretary Finance, Mr. Mandeep Singh Sandhu, Principal
Secretary Rural Development, Mr. Balwinder Singh Multani, Director Rural
Development and Panchayats.
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