Hulkoti gram panchayat in Gadag has been ranked joint first in the Mission Antyodaya 2020 national survey.
HUBBALLI: Hulkoti gram panchayat (GP) in Gadag district has been ranked joint first in the Mission Antyodaya 2020 national survey conducted by the central rural development and panchayat raj ministry. This village of 11,794 residents is about 390km from Bengaluru and shares the top spot with Sulthanpur and Yelkurthi, both in Telangana.
It’s also a model for other GPs in implementing government schemes and utilising funds effectively. Hulkoti GP, established in 1962, has brought in major changes for residents by improving infrastructure, supply of clean drinking water, upgrading health facilities, good roads and increasing literacy rate, among other things. All these helped it score 90% in the survey. These are provisional rankings of 2,26,275 gram panchayats which have uploaded the data.