Ministry of panchayati raj plans to develop model panchayats in different states through integrated development President Pranab Mukherjee’s address to parliamentarians on Monday and the brain-storming sessions carried out by the new prime minister, Narendra Modi, with officials of different ministries indicate changes in the way rural development schemes will be implemented in the country. Each department in the rural development ministry has organized workshops with states to evolve the future road map. The possible changes to rural development schemes are as follows: Sanitation on mission mode The flagship programme for total sanitation, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, may now be put in mission mode with a new name—Swachh Bharat Mission. The target of achieving universal sanitation has now been pre-poned from 2022 to 2019.

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