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Udupi: Planning and implementation of Udupi Zilla Panchayat for the year 2019-20 has prepared and approved Rs 18730.02 lakhs for District Panchayat Programs, Rs 33388.08 lakhs for Taluk Panchayat Programs and Rs 97 lakhs for Gram Panchayat Programs and Implementation of Action Plans will be implemented by the related Departments, said Dinakar Babu, Zilla Panchayat President.

He chaired the Udupi District Planning Committee meeting on Saturday, October 5, 2019 at Dr. Vi. S. Acharya Hall.

Compared to last year’s Udupi District Panchayat, this amount is an additional 3.75 per cent. The Action Plan has allocated more grants to the road and building sector, earmarking 10 to 12 per cent more for development work than last time, he said.

Rs. 527.74 lakh to the District Panchayat, Rs. 200 lakh to the Taluk Panchayats and Rs 10 lakh to the Gram Panchayats implemented. The grants to the gram panchayats are being released by the government as recommended by the 14th Finance Commission. The grants will be prepared at the Gram Panchayat level and the program will be implemented with the approval of the District Panchayat.

Under the Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Department, a total grant of Rs 32.14 crore has been earmarked for Udupi district for the year 2019-2020. Rs. 463 lakhs for a total of 4 works under the Multi Gram Drinking Water Project as per the Guidelines on implementation planned for action, Dinakar Babu has proposed to complete the works under the Single Village Drinking Water Project for the ongoing 170 works, which will be Rs 620.96 lakh and 207 new works worth Rs 2120.49 lakh.

Under the Mission Anthodaya Namma Grama project, Zilla Panchayat Chief Planning Officer, Srinivasa Ravi Rao, said that under our project, our village is being planned according to the needs of the people at the village level and the information on various services available to the people at the village level should be filled through the mobile app, which consists of 142 questionnaires. .

The Solid and Liquid Resource Centers are functioning in about 50 Gram Panchayats in the district under the Swachhabharat Mission, which has so far collected 3500 tonnes of garbage and 2500 tonnes of dry rubbish, generating about Rs 70 to Rs 80 lakh through its scientific disposal, which is a model project for the entire state. Gram Panchayats who lack the space to start units are their nearest panchayat A multi-purpose waste management unit is being set up in partnership with the company. The CPO said that this would eliminate the problem of waste management in the district.

The Verfilter Composting / Tiger Toilet sanctioned as a central government pilot project in Udupi district has been implemented successfully in 100 households including 50 in Kaddala, 10 in Ambalapady, 20 in Bangalore, 10 in Basoor and 10 in Hosaru. He said the toilet pit would never fill and the water in the nearby wells would not be contaminated by the pit.

MLA Raghupathi Bhat, District Panchayat Vice President Sheela K. Shetty, Chief Executive Officer Preethi Gehlot, Deputy Secretary Kiran Pednekar and Project Director Gurudat were present.