Vadodara, DeshGujarat

Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley today announced Rs. 20 crore development works at Karnali village group which he has adopted as Rajya Sabha MP elected from Gujarat under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana.

Shri Jaitley who is in Gujarat to attend the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2015 arrived at Vadodara airport yesterday to visit Karnali village which is part of the Vadodara district.

Shri Jaitley said Karnali village will have Ahmedabad style riverfront on river Narmada.

Karnali is famous for its Kuber Bhandari temple. Kuber is considered as God of wealth in Hindu faith.

Jaitley has adopted Karnali group panchayat villages in Gujarat’s Vadodara district. Four villages of Karnali, Pipaliya, Vadiya and Banglipura are covered under Karnali group Panchayat of Dabhoi taluka.

Karnali attracts thousands of devotees of Lord Shiva who visit the Kuber Bhandari mandir here. This temple has the potential to emerge as a major tourist spot as lakhs of devotees visit it to offer prayers on the day of ‘amavasya’.

The total population of the four villages is 2,506 – Karnali (736), Pipaliya (717), Vadiya (631) and Baglipura (422).

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PTI report:

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today adopted four villages in Vadodara district in Gujarat as part of the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana for MPs.

“Today I adopted four villages– Karnali, Pipaliya, Valida, Baglipura– under the Karnali group panchayat of Dabhoi taluka in Vadodara district, as part of the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana,” he said in his Facebook post.

The Yojana was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech this year.

The scheme encourages MPs from both Houses to identify and develop one village from their constituency as a model village by 2016, and two more by 2019, covering over 2,500 villages of the 6 lakh villages country-wide.