Date:05/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/05/stories/2008120553800300.htm

Tamil Nadu

Local body chiefs felicitated

Special Correspondent

VILLUPURAM: Collector R. Palanisamy congratulated the panchayat presidents of 44 local bodies that had been selected for this year’s Nirmal Gram Puraskar.

Addressing them at the Collectorate here on Wednesday, he said that the self-help groups in these panchayats would be given revolving funds on a priority basis.

President Pratibha Patil would give away the awards to the panchayat presidents at a function to be held in Pune on Monday.