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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
TopicGram Panchayats

Topic: Gram Panchayats

Kiren Rijiju launches Citizen’s Tele-Law mobile app that will cover 75,000 Gram Panchayats

Law minister Rijiju also felicitated 124 Frontline functionaries, including Para legal volunteers, village level entrepreneurs, and state coordinators from across India.

Changing face of Bihar’s ‘least literate’ district: Now, every village has access to a library

Purnea DM Rahul Kumar began a book drive in January 2020, and within 21 months, libraries have been set up to reach all 230 gram panchayats and 7 urban local bodies.

‘Not colonial sir, madam’, Kerala Congress wants official communication to use Malayalam terms

Following example of Mathur gram panchayat, which uses Malayalam terms like 'chetta' (brother) & 'chechi' (sister), state party chief K Sudhakaran says all panchayats headed by party will do the same.

SubscriberWrites: Gram pradhans’ petty salary, and how Hindu culture ‘knew’ about the only pair of stars that revolve around each other

Subscribers write on the low salary to gram pradhans, which can be a license to corruption, and the importance of the pair of stars – 'Vashista” and “Arundhati” – in Hindu marriages.

77% women in Panchayati Raj Institutions believe they can’t change things easily on ground

Politics at India’s grassroots is changing, thanks to women in Panchayati Raj Institutions.

Shiv Sena’s rural reach, ‘mandate for Uddhav’ — what Maharashtra gram panchayat results show

Shiv Sena emerged as one of the biggest victors of the elections held last week to 14,234 gram panchayats, with the party clinching victory in about 20% of them.

For the first time in 35 years, this Maharashtra village had to ‘vote’ for its gram panchayat

Hiware Bazar, in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, has earned its fame as a model village — going from an under-developed hamlet to an affluent, self-sufficient one.

Covid must put an end to local govts’ long wait for power and self-rule. Kerala tells us why

Most Panchayati Raj and municipalities’ laws do not clearly demarcate the functions of local bodies. It’s time for constitutional amendment.

‘Had you not been PM’ — praise and a poem for Modi during video chat with sarpanches

PM Narendra Modi told the sarpanches that coronavirus has thrown up new challenges and it’s important that villages become self-reliant.

Gram panchayats, unsung warriors finally emerging as states’ saviour in Covid battle

Modi's video conference with sarpanchs puts gram panchayats in the news. But it's their work among migrants and against Covid that should take the spotlight.

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.