“India has attained new milestones in ‘Gram Swaraj’ and democratic empowerment of panchayats in the last eight years. Gram swaraj is considered an alternative model of rural reconstruction, whose primary focus is to ensure that villages are prosperous and self-reliant with good facilities”, said Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya.
Delivering a lecture at the symposium on ‘Gram Swaraj and 75 years of rural India’ organised by the Academy of Grassroots Studies and Research of India (AGRASRI) and Sri Venkateswara University here on Friday, he hailed Mahatma Gandhi’ s concept of rural governance as an ideal development approach even in the era of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. Explaining the policy framework and initiatives of the Union government in strengthening the concept, he asserted that the Centre had embarked on several things that Mahatma Gandhi had envisaged.
