Summary:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious programme, Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY), received a lukewarm response from the Gujarat government. The empowered committee — comprising the rural development minister, MPs and state government officials — had hardly met for the project since June 15, 2017. The programme was launched by the Prime Minister of India in 2014 on 11 October, the birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Narayan. Several MLAs highlighted crises looming the agriculture and rural development departments. The matter came to light after Congress MLA from Kapadvanj, Kalabhai Dabhi, had raised a question and the state rural development minister reponded to it in the Assembly..