Transparent Administration: Village civic head distributes balance sheet to residents
In what could be a rarity in the history of panchayats, 32-year-old president of Karuppampulam panchayat, R Subbu Raman, adopted a novel method to demonstrate transparency in the activities of the civic body during the 75th Independence Day on Sunday. The idea he conceived and implemented was the circulation of the balance sheet of the panchayat to all the houses under his purview.
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“The trigger behind this novel attempt was my conviction to help residents and the struggle that I went through to get details about the utilisation of public funds,” explains Raman, an MCA graduate. “I struggled to receive any detail from our panchayat. So, I had to depend only on RTI queries. My mission to help and work for the people of our village in getting government assistance began in 2012 soon after I completed MCA in Coimbatore. Being the only child, my parents did not want me to live outside the village and asked me to take up agriculture,” he recalled.
Raman distributing balance sheet
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