Union Minister for Rural Development and Mining and MP from Gwalior Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday inaugurated various facilities under the Sansad Adarsh Gram (SAG) scheme in the Dalit village of Mugalpura.
After developing Sirsod and Chinor in the constituency as model villages, Tomar has now adopted Mugalpura at Morar block in Gwalior district also under the SAG scheme.
The ‘Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana’ launched on 11 October 2014, is a rural development programme focusing on social and cultural development of villages in the state.
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Addressing the villagers on the occasion of Gram Swaraj Abhiyan on the birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar, Tomar said all-round development of Mugalpura will be done under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna just like in Chinor village.
A Panchayat Bhavan, Anganwadi centres, cement-concrete roads, availability of 24/7 electricity, new school buildings with computers, well equipped hospital with pathological laboratory, LPG connections in every home will be set up in the village, Tomar said.
“The village cannot be made Adarsh (ideal) until its people make it ideal with cleanliness, health and education,” he added.
He said the village will be made malnutrition free and appealed to the villagers to send their children to school regularly.
He said the Central government has built 6 crore toilets in the country and 3.5 lakh villages have been made open defecation free (ODF). Fifty crore people are taking benefits of medical facilities under the Centre’s Ayushman Yojana, Tomar added.
“Mugalpura will see availability of drinking water, become malnutrition free and unemployment free,” said Rahul Jain, collector of Gwalior. Zila panchayat CEO Shivam Verma stressed on maintaining the ODF-free tag of the village
“If a good school, a hospital and roads are built in our village it will be good,” a 46-year-old Dalit woman of the village said.
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