Vinay Kumar Sorake, Urban Development Minister, said on Monday that it was necessary to give more publicity to the programmes formulated by the government for the welfare of people in rural areas.
He was speaking after flagging of the Gramoday Se Bharat Uday publicity campaign in front of the Zilla Panchayat, here.
Mr. Sorake said that many a time people in the rural areas were unaware of the projects and schemes which were targeted at them.
A large number of people in the State and the country still lived in the rural areas. It was essential that the administrative machinery reached them and listened to their problems and solved them. It was also necessary to create confidence among the farmers with the regard to their future in agriculture. To make the government programmes easily understandable, street plays, folk songs, legal awareness camps and sports programmes would be conducted during the Gramoday campaign. The campaign would also make use of Gram Sabhas, Mahila Gram Sabhas, children’s Gram Sabhas and health camps to disseminate information, Mr. Sorake said. Pramod Madhwaraj, MLA, Meenakshi Bannanje, president of Udupi City Municipal Council, R. Vishal, Deputy Commissioner, Priyanka Mary Francis, Chief Executive Officer of Zilla Panchayat, were present.
