Chief Minister Raghubar Das has said the honorarium of Manki, Munda and Gram Pradhan will be increased as per social practices. Moreover, honorarium of Paragnet, Manjhi and Parha Raja will also be determined. Addressing people in the Gram Vikash Sammemelan at Dhurva stadium on Saturday the CM said that Gram pradhans with demonstrated excellence in their job will be felicitated with Jharkhand Ratna on Foundation Day of Jharkhand. He also assured the gathering to get boundary and beautification of all Sarna places done in one year.
The CM said that he believed in dialogue and active participation of the people in Governance and overall development of the State. “Since last 15 years, people of the State were mere spectator and audience with no rights to speak or protest. The time has changed now. People want corruption and malnutrition free Jharkhand. With strengthening Panchayati Raj system, the government is preparing schemes in consultation with the people of the state,” Das said at the occasion.
Slamming the Opposition leaders for misguiding people, he added that land acquisition had been only simplified further. “Nobody can dismantle the basics of CNT and SPT Acts. The government has provisioned a four-times compensation to be paid in 4 months against land acquisition. If the scheme is not implemented in 5 years, the acquired land will be returned to the land owners without asking them to return compensation amount,” Das said.
CM once again pleaded that land was required for development. Referring to Pesrar and Gujri villages of lohardaga and Chaibasa respectively, the CM said that the establishment of electric substation could take possible only after people offered their land for acquisition for a noble cause.
“Out of 68 lakh houses, only 38 lakh could get electricity even after 70 years of Independence. We want to change this scenario and speed of development by connecting all the villages with electricity by 2018,” Das said.
Das said that the aim of his joining politics was service to the people. He would keep going on till the last person of the state could be able to wear smile. Rural Development Minister Neelkanth Singh Munda, Welfare Minister louis Marandi, Revenue Minister Amar Kumar Bauri, Hatia MlA Navin Jaisawal, Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma, Development Commissioner Amit Khare, Principal Secretary to the CM Sanjay Kumar, Secretaries KK Soan and Himani Pandey and many other officials were also present at the occasion.
louis Marandi said at the occasion that the traditional social ethos of the state could be strengthened only through development of Gram Sabha. Bauri also attacked the opposition saying that their propaganda against the government was only because they were unable to digest development worked being carried out by the Government.
The CM said that the pilgrimage scheme had been started for the poor and tribal people. The first group under this would start for Puri on November 12. He said that the girls of Kasturba Gandhi schools were given tabs.