Gandhinagar, 2 May 2012 Chief Minister Narendra Modi today handed over incentive grants worth Rs.10.86 crore to 422 villages that became samras in the panchayat elections held in April-2012. Giving out the grants to samras sarpanchs and panchayat members today in a programme held at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar Mr. Modi said that an atmosphere of healthy competition between villages has been created across the state. “Instead of conflicts, the villages are now competing o...Read More

Morbi, 4 April, 2012 Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi today gave away incentive prizes of Rs. 14.70 crore to 558 Samras village panchayats of the seven districts of Saurashtra and Kutch region where village body including Sarpanch has been elected unopposed. In all, the Chief Minister will distributed incentive prizes of Rs.55.62 crore to 2123 village panchayats in four different zones which were elected samras in the panchayat election of December-2011. Chief Min...Read More

Ahmedabad, 23 March, 2012 Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi presented incentive awards worth Rs.7.30-crore to 298 ‘samras gram’ panchayats and felicitated their sarpanch (village heads) from seven districts in central zone at a glittering function at Anand today. Villages which elect their panchayat members through consensus instead of elections attain the status of ‘samras gram’. The seven districts covered today are Ahmedabad, Anand, Vadodara, Kheda, Dahod, P...Read More

Ahmedabad, 14 December 2011 This is indeed a great news. It's a story of a small village of central Gujarat, but it can be a guiding torch for India. Central Gujarat's Anand district village Sisva is all set to make history by electing a gram panchayat body consisting of only girls in 18-22 age group unopposed. The village decided this time to hand over the power to educated girls. Sisva village elects its local gram panchayat body unopposed for last three terms. Whil...Read More