Think Global, Act Local : Strengthening Local Governance in Gujarat Through Decentralization

Gujarat’s one-day governance model shows the way

Under the leadership of Shri Narendra Modi, Gujarat brought the model of ‘One Day Governance’ in 2003 to deliver key services like essential certificates, affidavits, land, civil supplies to its citizens in the duration of a single day. The total number of beneficiaries of “One Day Governance” in Gujarat is more than 60 lakh people, most of them belonging to poor families.
Know more on how Gujarat has implemented several facets of the Citizens’ Charter ahead of time

Samaras Gram Yojana: Fostering Consensus and Self-Governance in Villages

Mahatma Gandhi was a strong believer of the importance of local self-government and believed that every village must be strongly empowered to deal with local issues. Today, Gujarat is taking concrete steps towards fulfilling Bapu’s dream by making local self-government more effective through Samras Gram Yojana.
Read further on how Samras Gram has supported the governance at village level by building consensus and mutual cooperation

‘Chalo Taluke’ Campaign: a new model for taluka development

In the year 2011, Shri Narendra Modi first envisioned to infuse a new vigor to the decentralized administrative mechanism with the ‘Chalo Taluke’ campaign. The campaign was instrumental in taking the benefits of growth to the village level realizing the mantra of ‘Sauno Sath, Sauno Vikas’ (Cooperation from all, growth for all)
Take a glimpse of the initial steps taken by the Gujarat Government led by Shri Modi with “Chalo Taluke” campaign

‘ATVT – Apno Taluko, Vibrant Taluko’ – Decentralizing powers for Maximum Governance

As Gujarat turned 51 in 2011, Shri Narendra Modi launched Apno Taluko, Vibrant Taluko(ATVT) in order to empower people locally to guide the growth process through Taluka Sarkar – a sub district citizen-centric approach where governance and development is activated at the grass root level. At 51 talukas at a go, the Vibrant Taluko (ATVT) centres were launched!
Some must-knows on the innovative and proactive governance through ATVT

Empowering local governance through the creation of 7 new districts and 22 new Talukas

At a Cabinet meeting chaired by Shri Narendra Modi in January 2013, the Cabinet approved the creation of 7 new Districts and 22 new Talukas. The creation of new administrative units is a fresh example of Gujarat’s positive and proactive governance model. Moreover, it can be seen as an extension of the Chief Minister’s efforts to promote local self-government institutions.
Gujarat Government breaks new ground as it delivers on its previous promises and in doing so reinforces people’s faith in democratic institutions