Pioneer Village - Odanthurai

August 11, 2020

Pioneer Village - Odanthurai

Mr R.Shanmugam is the panchayat Former board president of Odanthurai village in Coimbatore District during 1996-2006 he was the Panchayat president. He runs an Non-Corrupt Village Administration Under this panchayat there are 8-9 Villages are present. There at the beginning Only one village had water Facility. Other villagers travel 2 to 3 kilometres to collect Water. Within 1 Year into his Presidency, they dug separate Bore Wells for Eight Villages. And built Overhead Tanks for Each Village. After that Panchayat was announced as Ladies ward so, his wife Mrs. Lingeswari Shanmugam became the Panchayat President. There in that Village nearly 600-700 families are Scheduled as Tribes/Scheduled Community. Those families are Below Poverty Line. And those people are lived in Huts.

House For All :

They planned "Housing for all" Scheme during 2006 and Implemented it. They built 850 Houses and made their panchayat “ Hut-Free”. When he joined, as panchayat president the total population of Village is 1,750. But, today it has gone up to 9,500. Usually people migrate from Village to the Urban Area. But, here Urban people migrated to this Village. And they strive to ensure basic facilities for all people in their Village.

Water Plant :

At the end of 1999,Central Government announced the “ Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water and Sanitation Mission”. On that 10 % cost will be payed by the Local People and Remaining 90% will be given by Central Government through World Bank. After heard that he called Gram Sabha . and They explained his village people about this 10 % amount made awareness to their villagers about “ Drinking Water”. They collected ,Money from the Villagers handed over it to the District Collector. After this Mr. Shanmugam attended the South Zone Conference in Mangalore with his proposal. Their representatives from 15 States took part on that conference. There Odanthurai village ‘s amount Rs.4.8 Lakhs was the biggest Amount on that public Contribution. On that conference, they announced that will be inaugurated at Odanthurai on " 09/09/2000". They sanctioned the scheme for Mr.Shanmugam immediately there. In India this is the first scheme on that public will participate. Later, The foundation stone was laid together by State and Central Governments. In 11 months, Pipelines for 13 kilometres Water treatment plant & Overhead tanks were laid. for 18 years, this scheme is functioning efficiently.

The First Local Body to install Windmill :

They produces Biomass Gas Energy 1kw Electricity, Solar Panels would give 1.5 to 2 kw Electricity. Then want high capacity of Electricity so, they planned to install Windmill. For that plant they need Rs.1.55 Crores to install a Windmill. During the time between 2001 to 2005, They saved Rs.40 Lakhs on Their Panchayat. Then they took loan of Rs.1.55 Crores and Installed the Windmill in 2005 itself. They closed the loan within 7 years and On the Eighth year they deposit to the Panchayat. At the National level their Panchayat Windmill was the First Local Body to installed.

They created five New Villages within their panchayat. In addition, they built Primary School & Higher Secondary School for those villages run that school successfully. They keep their school as clean. On the year 2017 their school won the award “ Clean School Awarded” at National Level.

Foreigner Visit to Odanthurai :

There are nearly 78 Countries Representatives visit Odanthurai. They took this village as their Good Examples for many things like Solar Plant, House for all, Windmill etc… Countries like Japan, Africa, France, German etc… send representatives to visit Odanthurai Panchayat. Not only those countries World Bank send an Committee to inspected Odanthurai to see their Growth.