Model village Sarpanch, husband turn daily wagers in Adilabad due to bills kept pending by Telangana govt

They said that they were reeling under a severe financial crisis due to inordinate delay in payment of bills with regard to various developmental activities by the government

Adilabad: Model village Mukhra (K) Sarpanch Gadge Meenakshi and her husband Subhash were forced to become beneficiaries of national rural employment guarantee scheme, following delay in clearing of the pending bills by the State government.

Meenakshi and Subhash were engaged in digging earth as part of NREGA at Mukhra (K) village. They said that they were reeling under a severe financial crisis due to inordinate delay in payment of bills with regard to various developmental activities by the government. They recalled that the bills were paid in time by the then BRS government.

The Sarpanch and her husband requested the government to take steps to clear the pending bills at the earliest. They stated that public representatives of rural civic bodies were facing inconvenience due to delay in payment of the bills relating to developmental projects. They were left with no option, but relied on the employment scheme.

The village has five national awards for excelling in various aspects. It received the national-level Gram Urja Swaraj Vishesh award and a cash incentive of Rs 50 lakh from Union Panchayat Raj minister Giri Raj Singh at National Panchayat Awards-2023 on April 27, 2023.

The model village bagged Swacch Sujal Shakti Samman in 2023, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Shashaktikaran Purashkar-2022 for effectively implementing various schemes and Biodiversity award in 2022 and Swachh Sarvekshan Award in 2020.

It also won three awards at the national Panchayat Awards Ceremony 2021-22 organised on the premises of Prof Jayashankar Telangana State Agriculture University in Hyderabad on March 31 in 2024.