Team Herald
MARGAO: The Seraulim Gram Sabha on Sunday approved the Village Development Plan aimed at improving agriculture and providing good health care besides providing drinking water and maintaining sanitation in the village.
The GPDP had eight specific projects to provide good health care facilities that included sanitary inspection to be undertaken every three months besides starting garbage collection from households.
Eight specific projects were marked to improve agriculture that included providing solar fencing for fields, rain water harvesting and subsidizing fertilizers and pesticides for farmers besides promoting community farming in the village.
12 projects have been listed to provide good water and maintain sanitation and these include repairs and maintenance of existing wells, desilting water bodies including the lake and construction of cross drainages and culverts.
To provide good roads and safety on them the Village Development Committee has listed nine projects that include construction of proper roads and even mud or kutcha roads and also provides for trimming of trees and bushes on the road side to provide visibility.
While four projects are listed under infrastructure that include upgradation of panchayat office and erection of a water tank in a ward to provide water to the people, eight projects are enlisted to improve educational facilities and most of the projects were aimed at improving the conditions of the government primary schools in the village.
Some villagers demanded that road be constructed leading to the fields so that agricultural machinery could be taken to the fields and two villagers specifically mentioned the location of these proposed roads. Rodney Almeida suggested that the panchayat go in for solar power for its need thus making it the first panchayat to opt for alternate energy source.
Panchayat Member Kevin D’Souza said these suggestions would be incorporated in the GPDP after the next VDC meeting.
A villager Vincy Fernandes urged the panchayat to at least discuss the suggestions or correspondence submitted by the villagers at their panchayat body meeting even if the proposal was submitted after the last date.
He admitted that he was late in submitting his proposals at the last gram sabha and was again late for submitting the same suggestions at this gram sabha and hence suggested that the panchayat could have discussed the matter and on realizing that the same issues were proposed late last time, could have taken them up at the present meeting.
