The fifth phase of the government’s flagship programme Back to Village concluded today in the district with a series of activities aimed at strengthening the grassroots governance and ensuring the delivery of public services to the people.
The programme, which started from November 7 and lasted till November 16, covered all 101 panchayats in the district and focussed on assessing the gaps and taking measures to bridge them in the development process, saturating the government services, enhancing the accessibility and awareness of all government schemes and reviewing the action taken on the demands raised in the previous phases of the programme.
The programme witnessed the enthusiastic participation of 101 senior officials of various government departments, or Visiting Officers, and the elected representatives of the panchayats, who expressed their satisfaction over the active involvement of the visiting officers.