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After adopting Potlod village near here yesterday, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan set a one-year deadline to turn it into a "model village".
After formally adopting Potlod yesterday, local MP Mahajan said that basic infrastructure would be developed in the area and two other villages in Indore would be developed into model places next year.
She said that her thrust areas in Potlod would be to boost to organic farming, small industries and cottage industries, as well as employment generation.
She asked villagers to join hands with her as well as bureaucrats to make Patlod a "model village".
Mahajan also laid the foundation stones of projects worth Rs 35 lakh.
