The Bidar Zilla Panchayat approved an annual action plan of Rs. 68.43 crore in the general body meeting held here on Tuesday.
Latha
Harkude, president, said: “the 150 gram panchayats and five taluk
panchayats had approved action plans for a total of Rs. 71.5 crore this
year.
Therefore, we are forwarding a request to the
State government to release Rs. 140 crore for taking up development at
the village, taluk and district levels.” Of the Rs. 140 crore,
Rs. 85 crore would be released as grants by the State government and the rest by the Union government.
Ujjwal
Kumar Ghosh, chief executive officer, said the largest chunk of Rs.
32.48 crore was set aside for primary and secondary education, Rs. 8.37
crore will be spent on health and family welfare and Rs. 5.9 crore on
community health programmes.
As much as Rs. 5.85
crore would be spent on women and child welfare and Rs. 1.63 crore on
agriculture. Budget outlays have also been set for 18 other departments.
ZP members approved the plan after confirming that expenditure on all revenue circles would be similar.
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