State Chief Minister Harish Rawat has categorically appealed to the Congress party workers to be ready to face upcoming challenges. Claiming that the State Government had undertaken various initiatives to serve the people of the State, he said that it is now the party workers’ responsibility to educate the people of their locality about the same. He made these comments while addressing party workers at a meeting organised in the Raipur assembly constituency in Dehradun on Sunday. With this statement the CM has given enough hint to the workers to the effect that a do- or -die fight has begun informally for which he has been motivating the Congress party workers.
He told the party workers that it was their responsibility to ensure that the intended beneficiaries should receive the benefit upto the last village of the state. He apprised them that for the pregnant women, who usually become anemic, State Government is giving two kg Mandua (finger millet), one kg Bhatt (black soya bean) and one kg iodised salt to each pregnant woman. The positive results of this initiative are now becoming visible. Besides it the State government has also started several types of pension schemes which has also resulted in an increase in the number of pensioners in the State from 2.25 lakh to about 6,00,000 pension beneficiaries. The State Government has also been undertaking efforts to promote the State’s traditional produce and culinary items of Uttarakhand.