Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address villagepanchayats across the country on Friday to mark the National Panchayati RajDay.
PM Modi will interact with the participants throughvideo-conference as the country is under lockdown due to the coronaviruspandemic, according to an official release issued on Wednesday.
To mark the occasion, PM Modi will launch a unifiede-GramSwaraj portal and a mobile app.
The unified portal is a new initiative of the Ministryof Panchayati Raj to provide the village panchayats with a single interface toprepare and implement their gram panchayat development plan (GPDP).
The statement also said that the prime minister willalso launch the Swamitva Scheme on the occasion. The scheme provides for anintegrated property validation solution for rural India.
Demarcation of inhabited land in rural areas would be done by the use of the latest surveying methods — drone technology with the collaborated efforts of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, State Panchayati Raj Department, State Revenue Department and the Survey of India.
The Swamitva Scheme would add momentum to the effortsto alleviate poverty in rural areas, the prime minister later said in a tweetwhile referring to the April 24 event he would address.
"I look forward to this interaction," hewrote.
To mark the occasion, every year the Ministry of Panchayati Raj has been awarding the best-performing panchayats, states and Union Territories under the Incentivisation of Panchayats in recognition of their good work for improving the delivery of services and public goods.
This year, three such awards — Nanaji Deshmukh Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Puraskar (NDRGGSP), Child-friendly Gram Panchayat Award (CFGPA) and Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP) Award have been finalized, the statement said.
