Chief Minister Raman Singh on Monday started his 7th phase of Vikas Yatra from the tribal dominated Khadgaon block headquarters of Korea district.
Addressing the meeting he assured people of better days ahead, as far as development was concerned. “In the Vikas Yatra of last 13 years, the State has come out of the pain of exodus and leaving backwardness behind, our State has been moving ahead fast on the way of development,” he added.
large number of people at Khadgaon accorded warm welcome to the Chief Minister. Addressing the welcome function, Raman said that the village and farmers have always been included in the priorities of the State Government. For their overall development, Government has been running several public welfare and development schemes, the positive result of which are coming to the fore, he added.
On the occasion, while announcing the upgradation of primary health centre of Khadgaon as community health centre, the Chief Minister said that through the schemes of the State Government the rays of development have reached in this tribal dominated area also. Four times increase of irrigation has been registered in this region, he added.
Dr Singh said that the Vikas Yatra, begain from Dantewada, has so far been completed 4,400 kilometres. After covering Korea, Surguja, Surajpur and Balrampur-Ramanujganj districts, the Vikas Yatra will concluded at Ambikapur, the district headquarters of Surguja district, on September 7.
Health Minister Amar Agrawal, Water Resources Minister Ramvichar Netam, Parliamentary secretary Bhaiyyalal Rajwade and Ramsevak Paikra and other peoples’ representatives in large number were present at the function.
Shedding light on the schemes of the State Government, the Chief Minister said that Chhattisgarh was the first State that paid Rs270 per quintal bonus to the farmers on the purchase of paddy on support price. Farmers were being provided agriculture loan at 1 per cent interest rate and 7500 unit free electricity on irrigation pumps of 5 horse power.
Under the Mukhyamantri health insurance scheme, health security has been provided to the 56 lakh families of the State, the chief Minister said.