Allahabad High Court division bench while hearing a PIL filed by Chandra Bhushan Pandey has given permission to the Gram Panchayats to hoist the National Flag from August 11 to 17 on a PIL requesting to hoist the national flag daily in every gram panchayat of the state.
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has stayed the appointment of panchayat assistants, accountants and data entry operators in gram panchayats.
The Petitioner in Supreme Court is an elected Chairman of Nagar Panchayat, Siswan Bazar who was elected when the last election of the Nagar Panchayat was held on December 1, 2017.
Despite reports of coercion to achieve targets, the Swachh Bharat Mission seems to have been successful as data reveals that 99 percent of cities in India have been declared open defecation free.