Telangana Chief Minister KCR has launched Grama Jyothi scheme at Gangadevipalli village in Warangal district today. This scheme is intended to decentralize the power and for speedy all-round development of villages in the state. Seven committees with specific missions like education, agriculture, basic amenities, drinking water-sanitation, social security- eradicating of poverty and preserving natural resources in each gram panchayat will be formed.

These committees will meet at regular intervals and conduct Grama Sabhas, where plans for development of their villages will be chalking out. Panchayati Raj Ministry will oversee their development programs and grant sufficient funds for it. CM KCR  declared that Rs.25, 000 crores will be spent on this program over next four years period.

However, opposition parties argue that CM KCR introducing this scheme merely not for development of villages but also to make his son KTR superior in his cabinet as he alone would oversee this Grama Jyothi scheme implementation and has powers to issue funds.

It would be interesting to see CM KCR is encouraging his MPs, MLAs, MLCs and Ministers to adopt at least one village of their choice in the state. But, he simply ignored “Samsad Aadarsh Gram Yojana” program launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi some time ago, in which he appeals all MPs to adopt at least one or two villages and develop them with Rs. 2 crores of MP local area development (MPLAD) funds allotted to them by the central government.