Panchayats and Rural Development

Panchayats and Rural Development Department is entrusted with the responsibility of constitution and framing policy related to functioning of the rural local self-government, i.e. the Panchayats.

Karmashree Prakalpa in West Bengal

Scheme regulating all rural unskilled workers, who are registered under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS through Job Cards, are eligible to get employment under the scheme Karmashree through various departmental works.

Gram Rojgar Sevak, MGNREGA

For implementation of NREGA, the State Government recruits GRS through BDO and appointment agreement with Pradhan for each one GRS at every Gram Panchayat.

West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973

An Act to reorganize, strengthen and expand the activities of Panchayats in rural areas of West Bengal to enable them to act as units of self-government and to strive for socio-economic development and securing social justice for the people and to provide formatters connected therewith.

Enhancement of Contractual Remuneration of MGNREGA Employees

Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLE) engaged for the purpose of making data entry who are paid on pro-rata basis, the Department makes an ad-hoc increase of 30% in respect of data entry charge in respect of all existing data entry interfaces.