Haryana Affairs
Sarpanches protest e-tendering of panchayat works across Haryana
A day after the show of strength by sarpanches in Tohana, the Home town of Development and Panchayat Minister Devender Singh Babli, they staged demonstrations outside the Block Development and Panchayat Offices across the state today to press for their demand for the withdrawal of e-tendering in the development works in the villages and also oppose the Right to Recall.
In the new system, villagers can get details of the tender of any work to find out every detail related to the work, including amount and other parameters of the quality in works.
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Over half of these blocks are in 6 statesUttar Pradesh (68 blocks), Bihar (61), Madhya Pradesh (42), Jharkhand (34), Odisha (29) and West Bengal (29).
However, states can add more blocks to the programme later.
Kerala Chief Minister(CM)Pinarayi Vijayanhas inaugurated thePalm leaf Manuscript Museumwith modern audio-visual technology at the renovated Central Archives, Fort area in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The Museum, promoted asWorlds First Palm-Leaf Manuscript Museumwas set up by the Archives Department in association with the Kerala Museum of History and Heritage at a cost of Rs 3 crore.
The museum is a repository of curious nuggets of administrative, socio-cultural and economic facets of the Travancore kingdom which lasted for 650 years till the end of the 19th century. It had been the Central Vernacular Records Office since 1887 before becoming a museum.
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