Sansad adarsh gram yojna: Chikhli village get new looks and developments in gujarat

• Chandrakant Raghunath Patil, MP from Navsari, adopted Chikhli. 
• Chikhli seen improvement in Sanitation and road renovation under SAGY.
• The infrastructure is improved.It is emerging as the template of village development.
• Patil completed the task in just three months.
• 380 toilets were built in Chikhli, many of them in the two slums 
• life has become better after construction of toilet in their houses 
• regular affair during the monsoons. A huge Shiva statue built six years ago by an NRI on the river bank had lost its colour and texture. The MP built a protection wall all along the riverbank and renovated a temple and the Shiva idol.
• renovation of road circles in a public-private partnership 
• putting waste collection bins around the village, procurement of a diagnosis machine for the Rotary Eye Hospital (in the nearby Navsari), a library in the village panchayat office, gas-based cremation at the village crematorium, a modern aganwadi centre and a bus stop.
• Patil’s cleanliness drive and sanitation facility have made Chikhli more sensitive towards hygiene. Also, renovation of road and river front gives a unique look to the village. 
• The village got its old wells recharged and reconstructed for providing clean drinking water to 7000+ villagers. 
• Arrangement has now been done under the Yojana to provide pure drinking water facility to each family in the village. Mr. Paatil has ensured that with the funds allocated Chikhli now has one dustbin for each house and there is appropriate provision for garbage collection via tractor and hydraulic tempos every day.