Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tuesday said that injustice will not be done to any poor person as BJP government is committed to providing ration to each and every eligible household. Anyone eligible under the Chhattisgarh State Food and Nutrition Security Act can apply anytime and the administration is ready to serve them.
Singh said this while addressing a meeting of BJP’s State office-bearers at the party’s State headquarters ‘Ekatm Parisar’ here on Tuesday. He said that names of eligible beneficiaries of the scheme would be added continuously but the government will not allow middlemen, owners of rice mills or shop keepers to grab the share of poor people.
To ensure this, proper verification of the beneficiary will be done at the Gram Sabha and by physical verification at the fair price shop. The eligible households whose ration cards have been cancelled will be given opportunity to get their names enlisted in the list of beneficiaries, Singh said.“We don’t care about the Opposition and will strengthen the public distribution system to make it more effective,” the Chief Minister said.
He urged upon the workers and leaders to publicize the welfare schemes of State and Central government in wards and help people to avail the benefits of these schemes.Singh said that the state government is rejuvenating the electricity supply by installing new transformers, replacing the old ones and putting up new supply lines.
About 20,000 poor families have been provided sewing machines, bicycles, kit, fishing net, boats etc for self-employment. Poor people are getting free treatment up to Rs50,000 through smart card facility.BJP State in-charge and national general secretary JP Nadda said that the party should focus on local body elections after Assembly and lok Sabha elections.The next three months are very crucial and the party workers and leaders should put their maximum in the local body elections, he said.
Nadda asked the party leaders to develop relations at the grass-roots level to get inputs from workers to prepare a winning strategy for local body elections.BJP State president Vishnu Dev Sai thanked the leaders, office-bearers and workers for victory in Assembly and Parliamentary elections and said that the victory should be repeated in local body elections also. “The local body elections are six months away but we will have to start our work right from today,” he said.
BJP State general secretary Rampratap Singh explained the detailed work plan for next three months while Panchayat Minister Ajay Chandrakar explained about delimitation and asked the party leaders to hold discussions with Collectors and CEOs in this regard.