Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in his Independence
Day speech about a scheme whereby every Member of Parliament shall adopt one
village in his/her constituency and develop the village to be called an ‘Adarsh
Gram’ – ideal village. This scheme came into effect last month and various MPs
have started adopting their villages. In this blog-post, we shall know the
details about this scheme and how the government intends to put this plan in
action.