AI-Powered Smart Panchayats Empowering Villages Through Rural Energy & Healthcare

Rural governance systems face persistent challenges due to manual infrastructure monitoring, limited healthcare awareness, and inefficient grievance redressal mechanisms. These issues result in delayed responses, lack of transparency, and reduced service quality at the Panchayat level. This work presents an AI-powered Smart Panchayat system that integrates rural energy monitoring, healthcare awareness, and digital grievance redressal into a unified web-based platform. The proposed system enables real-time visualization of feeder performance, structured complaint tracking, and AI-assisted non-diagnostic health advisory. Ethical and explainable AI techniques are employed to support decision-making without replacing human authority. Experimental results using representative rural sub-station data demonstrate improved monitoring efficiency, transparency, and citizen participation. The Smart Panchayat platform provides a scalable and cost-effective solution for technology-enabled rural governance.