a wonder village: shelavi gram panchayat

gram panchyat has immense potential for development of their own village, but it needs passionate or educated leader in the village pachayat.. Even today, if there is any gram panchayat which has a graduate sarpanch or it’s members who studied in collages it becomes a story for local daily. If the Gram panchayat has educated members in its council it could turn the face of the village. It has been proved by many gram panchayat in Gujarat. Take an example of shelavi village of mehasana district(north Gujarat). Shelavi gram panchayat’s all members were graduate way back in 1965. potambarbhai patel was sarpanch than. Shelavi had 800 to 900 population. In 1965, a small shelavi had 34 graduates, 21 double graduates, 11 engineers. The village has achieved 100 percent literacy in 1984. even today, in north Gujarat, shelavi is considered to be an ideal village to live in.