Mangalore, September 9: Members of the Bihar Legislative Committee on Zilla Parishad and Panchayati Raj expressed their happiness over the better state of pachayats in the Karnataka, especially in terms of tax collection system.
As many as 10 members of this 18-member Committee were in Mangalore on Thursday. They are touring different parts of the country to study the panchayat raj system. On Thursday, they met the Chief Executive Officer of the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat K.N. Vijay Prakash.
"We want to see the system and suggest changes to our government. We want to imbibe the best practices and strengthen the gram panchayat system in Bihar. Our government wants to reach out to people in villages. We want to reach to the level you have reached," said MLA Anandi Prasad Yadav, who heads the 10-member team.
The members have already visited Bangalore and Mysore. They will be visiting panchayat in Kerala and Goa
The MLAs were very curious about tax collection system from the gram panchayats. Mr. Prakash told the MLAs that the 203 gram panchayats in Dakshina Kannada were collecting 93 per cent tax. To this, MLA Bhumendra Narayan Singh said, "This is good. Our tax collection has been poor." Mr. Singh pointed that 42 per cent of Bihar population were below the poverty line.
The MLAs were also happy to know about education status of the panchayat members. "The members here represent in a better way. I found this while interacting with panchayat members in Mysore," Mr. Yadav said. They expressed their satisfaction over the water supply system and roads in the district.
The committee members were informed about the Total Sanitation campaign in all the 203 gram panchayats for which Nirmal Gram Puraskars have been awarded. They were informed about the e-governance at the panchayats and also about the campaign to ban the use of plastics. The members were inquisitive about the education system in the district, especially about deemed universities in the district.
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