leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly Ajay Singh said that BJP Government after its 14 years of rule in Madhya Pradesh maintained the State in deteriorated condition.
Singh was participating in the debate on the motion of thanks to Governor’s address. He said the State is at the top of the list in malnutrition. Child mortality rate is 50, children mortality rate in rural areas is 37, woman mortality rate is 221 and all these are higher than National mortality rates. Massive amount was spent over Save Girl Child campaign which proved failure as in the region of Foreign Minister and CM Shivraj Singh’s working area the female ratio is 721 per 1000 males and all these situations are witnessed when around Rs 10000 crore have been spent over Health and Children and Woman Welfare last year.
The education sector share the same picture as 10000 government schools are without teachers, 18000 government schools have teacher each to operate school. For construction of government schools out of Rs 850 crore, details of spending of Rs 400 crore are not found and Rs 19 crore scam was revealed in RTE and this all happened after Rs 5740 crore were spent in the year 2017-18.
Spending leniently on branding, advertisement and huge events have led to the massive debt of Rs 1.5 lakh crore over the state. On Narmada Yatra Rs 500 crore were spent and on a state government corporation the debt is Rs 20000 crore and government is preparing to avail a loan of Rs 22000.
The rate of unemployment is surging and highest number of unemployed is in the state capital which is 1.26 lakh. IN the past two years rate of unemployment is increased to 53 percent.
On human development index state lags among the peers and stands on 16 and 19 place among 19 states in Human Development Index and Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index respectively.
In the lack of proper facilities 20 IT companies returned their allocated lands. For young entrepreneurs capital venture fund of Rs 100 crore was announced by the CM during global investors meet but after negligence by state government other stake holders refused to provide finance.