Chief Minister Raman Singh, while addressing a Press conference here at his official residence on Sunday evening, said, “On the Naxal front, we have advanced considerably. Our Government is trying to create the same environment in Bastar, we were able to creating in Surguja.”
“The aim of this yatra is to inform people about the achievements of this Government during last nine-and-half years. We will also put forward our vision before the people of Chhattisgarh and let them know where we want to take the State by 2018,” said the Chief Minister. He further said, “We have developed infrastructure in the State and the time has come when we could push Chhattisgarh to the list of developed States in the county. On a strong base that has been created in the past nine years, we would be able to build a strong Chhattisgarh in the next five years.”
To a query on the decreasing number of farmers in the State, he said about 1.50 lakh farmers became Sikshakarmis, about 1 lakh people joined police force.
So, there are farmers in State who are now Sikshakarmis and policemen. Reacting to the census report released recently which said number of labours has gone up in the State, the Chief Minister said in addition to MNREGA, anyone who wants to work will be given work for 50 more days from State Government fund, this is reason more people are benefited. To a question about increase in the number of people living below poverty line, he said there are different standards set by Union Government and Planning Commission for people living below poverty line and these criterion changes time to time, “it is our effort to cover most of poor people living under the food security scheme”. Staff Reporter