D J Venkatesh
Diglipur, Nov 29: The Kishori Nagar Panchayat of Diglipur has reached another milestone by running one tractor of the same Panchayat for 40 hours in one day. Believe it or not the Panchayat has also raised money by issuing the tractor to different persons.
Receipt no from 1202-1217 & 1237 by issued by Gram Panchayat Kishori Nagar in different names prove that on 24/11/2010 (which as usual had only 24 hours) the tractor provided on hire for 40 long hours. However, how the Panchayat had performed the miracle is still now known.
Surprisingly even after running the tractor for so many hours the Panchayat earned only Rs. 38,000 in 2010, while the expenditure to maintain the tractor was Rs. 4 Lack (spares, diesel, driver, cleaner and operating charges).
Matter does not end here, According to documents obtained through RTI, the Panchayat purchased fuel for the tractor from a spare parts shop while ANIIDCO pump was operating at that time.
It seems that empowerment of PRI has started yielding results in Andaman.
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