Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday announced various new initiatives to strengthen gram panchayats and issued directives for taking steps regarding innovation, transparency and result-oriented use of the resources available in rural areas.

Chairing a review meeting of the Panchayati Raj Department, Adityanath said, “Panchayats are not merely administrative units, but the soul of rural development.”

He directed that each district panchayat must get a civil engineer or architect to ensure quality in local construction and map approval processes.

The Chief Minister also instructed officials to set up Aadhaar centres in village secretariats, enabling services like Aadhaar card creation, updates, and biometric verification. The fee collected from these services, he sai

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