Chief Minister Raman Singh on Thursday forwarded a letter of a group of villagers from Janjgir-Champa district to Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj urging for payment of remaining compensation to the State’s gulf war returnees. The Chief Miniser was meeting an applicant Johit Ram Joshi of village Kapisda in Janjgir-Champa district who came alongwith a list of 41 workers of Parsadih,Pipra, Kapisda,Kajurani and other villages and said that they went to Iraq in 1989-90 but were recalled by the Central government due to the outbreak of hostilities there.
The villager said that the gulf war returnees were paid compensation of Rs1 lakh to Rs5 lakh . The remaining part of the compensation was not yet to be paid to them. The villagers in the letter requested Chief Minister Raman Singh to look into the matter and settle the dispute expeditiously. Singh urged the complainant to submit some documentary evidence so that the matter can be settled at the Central Government level.
V Nagamani of Raipur lamented that a jeweller in the city cheated her of her gold and silver jewellery. Singh urged the Superintendent of Police (SP) to look into the matter. A delegation of Jashpur Madarsa District Shikshak Sangh in a complaint said that 65 Madarsa teachers did not receive their wages since 2013-14. About Rs10,000 salary was fixed for post-graduate teachers and Rs6,000 for graduate teachers. At present, they are getting even lesser wages.
The Chief Minister directed the complaint to the Chhattisgarh Madarsa Board Chairman and ordered to redress the grievance as soon as possible. The representatives of Chhattisgarh Field Health Workers’ Union in their plea requested the Chief Minister to solve the problems of trained and untrained workers of National Malaria Control Programme.
They are working for the past 15 years but they were informed recently that their services will be terminated from March 31, 2015. Singh ordered the Principal Secretary of the Health Department to redress the plaint as early as possible. A delegation of ‘Mitanins’ in their complaint said that they are undergoing training as ANMs at the Sri Shankaracharya College of Nursing in Durg district.
During counselling they were informed that the training will be at the expense of the State Government. But now the college management is insisting upon the ‘Mitanins’ to pay the fees. Singh directed the complaint to the Principal Secretary of the Health Department. A group of 65 South East Central Railway (SECR) Apprentice Examination passed candidates requested the Chief Minister to urge the Railway Board to regularise their services. Other Railway boards have regularised the services of their apprentices, they said.
Singh assured them that he will write to the Railway Board Chairman. Several complaints were related to the Health Department, community building construction at the Jan Darshan programme. Singh also directed Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Hospital authorities to treat a cancer patient free of cost.