Jammu Panchayat selected for National Award

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 8: Union Ministry of Panchayati Raj has selected Panchayat Bharda Kalan in Akhnoor block of Jammu district for Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar/ Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Puraskar for the Appraisal Year 2015-16.
The Panchayat has been selected for award under Thematic Sanitation Category and the same will be presented on National Panchayati Raj Day to be celebrated at Lucknow on April 24, 2017.
The Panchayat has been selected for the award for undertaking remarkable works of developing ponds and positive initiatives taken under Sanitation Mission. This Panchayat has already been chosen by the Jammu district administration for 2nd pilot project of Solid and Liquid Resource Management (SLRM), which essentially aims at collecting waste from houses and then generating income out of segregated waste.
The first SLRM project is going on in Chaklala village of Bishnah block.

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