Urban Villages: 2x spending on Punjab villages under AAP Govt

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Last Updated: 3 October 2026

Nov 2025: Rangla Punjab Scheme (₹5 crore for every Assembly constituency)[1][2]

Efficient Administration: New Panchayat Development Secretary post[3]

-- Merging the cadres of Panchayat Secretaries and Gram Sevaks into 1 post
-- Salaries and pensions paid from the state treasury

2x spending on villages: ₹3,847 crore on rural development in 4 years of AAP Govt vs ₹1,883 crore in 5 years of Congress (2017-22)[4][5]

Spending breakdown (Apr 2022 – Mar 2026)[4:1]

Head Amount
Infrastructure (panchayat buildings, libraries, anganwadis, sports grounds, streets) ₹1,030.94 crore
Water, sanitation & solid waste ₹1,336.70 crore
MGNREGA (vs ₹4,708 cr in 2017-22) ₹5,146 crore

Panchayat Ghars & Common Service Centres[6]

373 Panchayat Ghars built in phase 1

  • Phase 2 (Aug 2025): foundation stone laid for 500 modern Panchayat Ghars with Common Service Centres across the state
    -- at a cost of ₹125 crore

Model villages for SC-majority villages (Adarsh Gram Yojana)[7]

  • ₹72.21 crore released (Jun 2026) for villages with 40%+ Scheduled Caste population
  • 3,763 villages approved for household surveys and Village Development Plans
  • 242 newly selected villages get a ₹20 lakh gap-filling grant each
  • District committees headed by Deputy Commissioners monitor works; funds converge with other rural schemes

Women self-help groups

~6 lakh rural women in ~58,000 SHGs under PSRLM[8]

Sarpanch honorarium[9][10]

₹10,000 per month for every Sarpanch from 15 Aug 2026, up from ₹2,000 (and the ₹1,200 that earlier governments promised but never implemented)[9:1]

  • Apr 2025: honorarium raised to ₹2,000 a month, effective from the date of the sarpanch's election, the highest ever in Punjab[10:1]
  • Nov 2025: payment mechanism fixed: panchayats with their own income pay from their funds; panchayats without income get it through the Block Samiti[11]
  • Old dues cleared: pending honorarium (₹1,200 a month, outstanding since 2013) to 3,000+ sarpanches of income-less panchayats was ordered to be cleared by 12 Nov 2025[12]

Unanimously elected panchayats (reward for harmony)[4:2][5:1]

2,970 panchayats elected unanimously in 2024, vs 1,870 in 2018[4:3][5:2]

  • ₹5 lakh special grant for every unanimously elected panchayat (raised from ₹2 lakh), to be spent on village development works; disbursal began in 2025[13]
  • Feb 2026: ₹1.65 crore released to 33 unanimously elected panchayats of the Ferozepur Urban constituency (₹5 lakh each)[14]
  • Drug-free villages: ₹1 lakh financial aid plus development support[10:2]

Historic villages visited by the Gurus

Sarpanch honorarium[9:2][10:3]

₹10,000 per month for every Sarpanch from 15 Aug 2026, up from ₹2,000 (and the ₹1,200 that earlier governments promised but never implemented)[9:3]

  • Apr 2025: honorarium raised to ₹2,000 a month, effective from the date of the sarpanch's election, the highest ever in Punjab[10:4]
  • Nov 2025: payment mechanism fixed: panchayats with their own income pay from their funds; panchayats without income get it through the Block Samiti[11:1]
  • Old dues cleared: pending honorarium (₹1,200 a month, outstanding since 2013) to 3,000+ sarpanches of income-less panchayats was ordered to be cleared by 12 Nov 2025[12:1]

Unanimously elected panchayats (reward for harmony)[4:4][5:3]

2,970 panchayats elected unanimously in 2024, vs 1,870 in 2018[4:5][5:4]

  • ₹5 lakh special grant for every unanimously elected panchayat (raised from ₹2 lakh), to be spent on village development works; disbursal began in 2025[13:1]
  • Feb 2026: ₹1.65 crore released to 33 unanimously elected panchayats of the Ferozepur Urban constituency (₹5 lakh each)[14:1]
  • Drug-free villages: ₹1 lakh financial aid plus development support[10:5]

Heritage villages & martyrs' hometowns

Major heritage and civic projects for the hometowns of Shaheed Udham Singh (Sunam) and Shaheed Bhagat Singh (Khatkar Kalan)

Village sports grounds & gyms

Village street lights

Village ponds

Rural libraries

References:

  1. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=214101 (Punjab Govt Press Release, 27 Nov 2025) ↩︎

  2. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=213476 (Punjab Govt Press Release, 13 Nov 2025) ↩︎

  3. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=209086 (Punjab Govt Press Release, 14 Aug 2025) ↩︎

  4. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=219226 (Punjab Govt Press Release) ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  5. https://theprint.in/india/punjab-cm-presents-report-card-on-rural-development/2893918/ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  6. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=209031 (Punjab Govt Press Release, 13 Aug 2025) ↩︎

  7. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=223068 (Punjab Govt Press Release, 27 Jun 2026) ↩︎

  8. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=217963 (Punjab Govt Press Release, 3 Mar 2026) ↩︎

  9. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=223028 (Punjab Govt Press Release) ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  10. https://www.babushahi.com/view-news.php?id=202920 (Punjab Govt Press Release, 24 Apr 2025) ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  11. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=213566 (Punjab Govt Press Release, 15 Nov 2025) ↩︎ ↩︎

  12. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/sarpanches-to-get-pending-honorarium-before-nov-12 ↩︎ ↩︎

  13. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/bathinda/punjab-government-begins-disbursing-special-grant-to-unanimously-elected-panchayats/ ↩︎ ↩︎

  14. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=217414 (Punjab Govt Press Release, 19 Feb 2026) ↩︎ ↩︎

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