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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Thursday (February 19, 2026) said online nationalist services successful Kerala had moved beyond announcements to go a lived reality, citing that implicit 10 lakh applications filed done the K-SMART level were processed wrong an hr and much than 2 lakh gathering permits were issued wrong a minute.
Inaugurating the valedictory ceremonial of Local Self-Government Day astatine the Mangattuparamba KAP Battalion ground, helium said section bodies played a important relation successful Kerala. The State, helium added, had consistently strengthened decentralisation and empowered section institutions.
Kerala has importantly enhanced fiscal enactment to section bodies, allocating implicit ₹70,000 crore since 2021. In the past 5 years alone, ₹8,867 crore has been provided for roadworthy works and ₹1,187 crore for anganwadi buildings. Under the Chief Minister’s section roadworthy operation project, 4,912 works person been completed successful the archetypal signifier astatine a outgo of ₹980 crore, portion projects worthy ₹939 crore are nether mode successful the 2nd phase.
The Chief Minister said astir 5 lakh homes envisaged nether the Life Mission were nearing completion. Kerala, helium said, remained the best-performing State successful implementing the agrarian employment warrant scheme. On discarded management, helium said 1,027 section bodies had been declared coagulated waste-free.
He released the Local Self-Government department’s advancement study and the logos for the 2nd signifier of the Extreme Poverty Eradication and Digi Kerala projects. Local Self-Government Minister M.B. Rajesh presided implicit the relation and distributed awards, including the Swaraj Trophy and the Mahatma Awards.
