Overview

• Harish Rao wrote to Panchayat Raj Minister D. Anasuya demanding immediate release of paused development funds to gram panchayats
• He flagged unpaid dues to sanitation workers and data entry operators from last year’s survey and called for their settlement
• He warned that gram panchayats lack resources to cover diesel costs, tractor road taxes and streetlight upkeep without fresh allocations
• He urged formal regularisation of 9,350 panchayat secretaries hired on an outsourcing basis to fulfil the Congress’s ‘Abhaya Hastam’ promise
• He pushed for special monsoon sanitation and disease prevention drives ahead of upcoming local body elections