The Green Kerala Express social
reality show for grama panchayats will be revived with focus on sanitation,
social security, palliative care, and functioning of anganwadis, Minister for
Panchayats M.K. Muneer has said.
Releasing a research report of
Manjula Bharathy, Associate Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, on
the Green Kerala Express reality show here on Wednesday, Mr.Muneer said the
programme aired on Doordarshan in 2010 visualised many sustainable development
models in panchayats and it had reached the people too.
The research report was released at a
two-day seminar on ‘Democratic decentralisation & mediascapes: contested
terrains and shifting terrains' held at the Centre for Development Studies.
Panchayats will be inspired to
execute projects with an extra caution once they come to public glare through
the media. This will lend a clear direction to regional development.
To strengthen participatory
democracy, grama sabhas should reflect the aspirations and views of women,
children, differently abled, and tribes, he said.
The People's Plan Campaign was the
biggest information dissemination process which took place in the country,
former Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac said.
The Green Kerala Express show had
helped to strengthen the informal education process formed through the Plan
campaign and firm up the communication between local governments.
The show also helped to instil a
confidence in local governments that decentralisation of powers had gained the
strength to brave all challenges, he said.
The report was prepared on the basis
of a field survey and focus group discussions held among 200 people in Kollam,
Thrissur, and Palakkad districts.
The Elappully, Akatthethara, and
Adatt panchayats, which won the first three prizes in the show, and the
Nedumpana panchayat, which participated in the show, were also included in the
study.
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