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The Centre volition merchandise the archetypal instalment of ₹260 crore for strengthening Gram Panchayats successful Telangana, pursuing the completion of section assemblage elections and the caller submission of Utilisation Certificates (UCs) for 2023–24 by the State Government.
The remaining ₹2,500 crore volition beryllium released successful phases upon the submission of further UCs, Union Minister for Coal & Mines G. Kishan Reddy said successful a property merchandise connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026). He said that, arsenic per guidelines, each Gram Panchayat indispensable support a abstracted slope relationship for money utilisation, registered connected the ‘PFMS’ portal with a unsocial bureau code.
The Minister said the Prime Minister Narendra Modi Government has released implicit ₹11,000 crore to Gram Panchayats and section bodies — including ₹5,060 crore betwixt 2015–16 and 2019–20, and ₹6,051 crore retired of the ₹9,050 crore allocated for 2020–21 to 2025–26 — marking an 80% summation implicit the erstwhile tranche.
The Centre firmly believes that strengthening grassroot antiauthoritarian institutions enhances accountability and transparency, helium said, adding that funds were released to local bodies successful a timely manner. The Secunderabad MP besides accused the erstwhile Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) authorities of attaching Gram Panchayat slope accounts and diverting funds for “other purposes.”
As a result, helium said, respective sarpanches resigned aft not receiving funds for works completed during their tenure. In immoderate tragic cases, sarpanches adjacent died by suicide, which helium described arsenic profoundly unfortunate and regrettable.
Mr. Reddy urged the Telangana Government to workout owed diligence and cooperate with the Centre to fortify agrarian infrastructure, enactment village‑level development, and beforehand the nation’s maturation goals.
