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Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan connected Thursday reiterated that the NDA authorities was committed to realising the imagination of Mahatma Gandhi’s 'Gram Swaraj' with sweeping reforms successful the Panchayat Raj and Rural Development systems.
Mr. Pawan Kalyan was inaugurating the caller District Development Officer (DDO) bureau adjacent the Collectorate here, too virtually launching 77 DDOs crossed the State to fortify the duplicate wings of the administration.
The Deputy Chief Minister said the NDA government, nether Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, was introducing structural reforms inspired by the 73rd Constitutional Amendment to guarantee decentralised governance and stronger section institutions. With the instauration of DDO offices, the Panchayat Raj Department would present person a divisional-level operation comparable to the Revenue and Police wings.
Mr. Pawan Kalyan observed that the caller offices would streamline supervision of improvement and payment programmes astatine the tract level, enabling continuous monitoring and quicker transportation of services. He said that long-pending promotions and work issues successful the PR&RD departments, immoderate dating backmost implicit 2 decades, had been resolved, benefiting astir 10,000 employees.
The authorities besides merged the Zilla Parishad and District Panchayat wings, upgraded DPO posts to Deputy Director level, and reorganised Panchayat Secretary cadres from 5 grades to three. Panchayat Secretaries had been redesignated arsenic Panchayat Development Officers (PDOs), and each ample gram panchayat with a colonisation of implicit 10,000 would present person a gazetted PDO.
Mr. Pawan Kalyan said that the authorities abolished 7,244 clusters and converted 13,350 gram panchayats into afloat autonomous section bodies, each with a dedicated Panchayat Secretary. A peculiar IT helping was being created to fortify integer governance successful Panchayat Raj institutions.
Panchayat Raj Commissioner V.R. Krishna Teja said G.O. Ms. 57 and 58 facilitated the restructuring, adding that the caller divisional posts volition besides beryllium unfastened to Group-1 recruits, creating caller opportunities for aspirants.
Chittoor Collector Sumit Kumar said the DDOs would relation connected a par with RDOs, equipped to reappraisal MGNREGS and PR section activities. Chittoor territory would run these offices done G+1 structures funded by Zilla Parishad resources.
Ministers K. Atchannaidu (Agriculture), Nadendla Manohar (Civil Supplies), Anam Ramanarayana Reddy (Endowments) and S. Savitha (BC Welfare) joined the programme virtually from their respective districts. Local MLAs, officials and nationalist representatives from Chittoor, Puthalapattu, Tirupati and Railway Kodur Assembly constituencies besides participated successful the event.
