Pawan Kalyan underscores sweeping reforms in Panchayat Raj Department, vows stronger support for employees

Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan said respective reforms had been carried retired successful the Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Department implicit the past 1 and a fractional years, with much connected the way, each aimed astatine safeguarding employees’ payment and protecting their rights. He said much than 10,000 employees had received promotions connected the ground of seniority and sincerity since the NDA assumed bureau past June. Gram Panchayats with colonisation supra 10,000 were classified arsenic Rurban Panchayats, and Deputy MPDO-rank gazetted officers were posted to guarantee improvement connected par with municipalities.

Addressing employees astatine a ‘Maata Manthi’ programme adjacent Mangalagiri connected Wednesday, Mr. Pawan Kalyan said that arsenic the lad of a authorities employee, helium understood their difficulties and was committed to doing everything legally permissible to amended their surviving standards. He urged unit to service radical with dedication successful enactment with the government’s priorities.

He said the section lacked transparency betwixt 2019 and 2024, a play erstwhile galore villages suffered without basal infrastructure and a complaint paper allegedly governed each station and transfer. With these issues successful mind, the NDA authorities had been reforming the strategy to destruct governmental interference, and the results were already visible.

The Deputy Chief Minister said the authorities was alert of employees’ request for a wage hike and would see it erstwhile the State’s finances stabilised. Problems raised by employees were being addressed with priority, helium added. He said promotions for 70 officers successful the Zilla Parishad CEO cadre were imminent and regular promotions were being processed up to the level of Engineer successful Chief.

He said converting 13,350 Gram Panchayats into autarkic administrative units was a large reform. The section had besides been restructured for amended outcomes. In enactment with the tone of the 73rd Constitutional Amendment, 77 Divisional Development Offices had been opened crossed the State to fortify readying and integrated work delivery. Mr. Pawan Kalyan called connected each wings of the section to enactment unneurotic for agrarian development.

Special Chief Secretary Shashibhushan Kumar, AP State Institute of Rural Development Commissioner R. Mutyalaraju, PR&RD Commissioner M. V. R. Krishna Teja, Guntur Collector A. Thameem Ansariya and MGNREGS Director Shanmukh Kumar attended the programme.