Chief Minister Kamal Nath has called upon the people of the State to concentrate on making Madhya Pradesh a State of trust. The Chief Minister assured the citizens that Madhya Pradesh will be a changed State in the coming years, not only the country but also the world will be a witness to this change.
Nath gave this message to the citizens of the state at the Madhya Pradesh Foundation Day function held at Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Park in front of the Manatralaya on Friday.
The Chief Minister said that the state government will establish a Global Skill Park in Bhopal to ensure that the youth of the state, develop skills of international standard and get a respectable employment. He said, 'We have prepared a roadmap for development on which the government will work with all sincerity and commitment for the next five years.” The Chief Minister, while delivering the message to the citizens of the state, mentioned a programme of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru held in Mandu of Dhar district after the creation of the state of Madhya Pradesh 63 years ago. He mentioned that Pt. Nehru had said that 'There are opportunities for growth in Madhya Pradesh; I want the people of this state to move forward, but remember that we make progress by ourselves”. Learn new things by living together with love. Do your job well. It will benefit you, your neighbours, village, everybody and the country too. Kamal Nath said that Madhya Pradesh is poised to become a state according to the aspirations of Pt Nehru today.
The Chief Minister said that growth is not defined by GDP rate or other statistics. I believe that the right scale to measure development is happiness of the people. Along with the balanced utilization of natural wealth, peace, profitable farming and better facilities of education and health, youth should get employment in Madhya Pradesh. There should be religious harmony, governance and administration should be people-oriented, people have faith in their own power, cities and villages with basic amenities should be developed uniformly.
The Chief Minister further said, “I am trying to develop Madhya Pradesh on these grounds. He said, 'We lag behind if we do not move with time. We are making efforts to connect government and administration with new positive changes in order to make Madhya Pradesh move side by side with the country and world.” Nath said that we have prepared a roadmap for the comprehensive development of the state. Our goal is to modernize farming and provide a fair price to the farmers for their produces, minimise farming dependence on monsoon, development of a proper system for irrigation, drinking water and electricity along with the construction of roads.
He said that in the roadmap, we have also included all round development of all the deprived sections of the state, empowerment of women, establishment of rule of law and providing ample opportunities for progress to all sections of the society.
By decentralizing power we will hand over the opportunities of development of rural areas to the villagers themselves. At the same time, we will also give them the right to natural wealth.