- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on October 2, 2019 inaugurated the ‘Village and Ward Secretariat system’ at village near Kakinada.
- Andhra Pradesh became a role model for other States by setting up village and ward secretariats.
- Under the new system, the state government, led by Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, one Village Secretariat has been set up for every population of 2,000, with each one comprising close to a dozen village officials (from different departments like police, revenue, etc).
- The idea behind it to ensure that its services reach people on the ground, and also to strengthen the existing Panchayat Raj system.
- According to the CM, these institutions would act as a bridge between the government and the people by rendering over 500 types of services at their doorstep.
- The Village Secretariats would showcase government programmes and make pictorial representations of government schools and hospitals under the caption ‘then and now’ to show how reforms had changed their functioning.
