CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government has announced a slew of incentives for rural local bodies, including raising by five to ten times the ‘sitting fee’ elected members get to attend sessions.
And vehicles would be bought for all panchayat union chairpersons to attend to official duties. The sitting fee for members of district panchayats and panchayat unions would be increased tenfold and that for members of village panchayats fivefold, chief minister M K Stalin informed the state assembly on Friday.
