As per the calendar of activities of the people’s plan campaign, an orientation training for line department nodal officers on Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP) 2021 was held on September 10 in the conference hall of rural development (RD) directorate.
A press release from the department informed that during the training, joint director RD and state nodal officer, K. Neibou Sekhose who chaired the training shared highlights on the previous year’s activities and stressed on the need to scale up in the current year.
In a PowerPoint presentation, he explained the significance of GPDP in every village and requested the line departments to disclose their projects and schemes wherever it was being implemented to village councils so that it could be included in the village development plan. Stating that all activities have to be uploaded in the Gram Samvad App, he sought cooperation from the members present.
For the campaign to be successful, he also advised on nomination of district level nodal officers, facilitators and frontline workers where frontline workers would play a crucial role.
On various panchayat awards received by the state in the previous year, he asked them to give more effort so that the villages could achieve more.
The training was attended by nodal officers from environment, forests & CC, NRE, school education, water resources, fisheries & AR, E&C, PHED, A.H. & veterinary, agriculture, employment, art & culture and social welfare departments.