State Government is organising Backward Classes Mahakumbh and Ramji Mahajan Backward Class Service State Award-2015 at Sagar on May 6.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will inaugurate the ceremony at 2 pm in the Bamora School ground. Finance Minister Jayant Malaiya, Home Minister, Bhupinder Singh, Panchayat and Rural Development Minister, Gopal Bhargava, Public Health Engineering Minister, Kusum Singh Mehdele and Revenue Minister Umashankar Gupta will take part in the Mahakumbh which will be presided over by Minister of State for Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare (Independent Charge) lalita Yadav. Commissioner Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare Ramesh Thete reviewed preparations on Friday.
Thete said that Ramji Mahajan Backward Class Service State Award-2015 will be given to Kanti Patel, Smt. Asha Sahu, Maya Vishwakarma, Suraj Singh Maran, JK Yadav, Alka Saini, Narayan Singh Dagor, Babita Parmar, Yamuna Kachhava, Preeti Sen, Kusum Mahdel (Jabalpur), Rajesh Dodke, Bhagwan Bhai Patidar, Kashiram Yadav and Mahendra Katiyar. A souvenir will be released and an exhibition will also be organized on the occasion.
More than one lakh people from five districts of Sagar division are expected to participate in the Mahakumbh. Trainees of training institutes run by the department and the beneficiaries of various schemes will also be present.
Successful candidates who are selected on various posts after the free training will be honoured.
Four trainees have been selected as Deputy Collectors from state level Employment and Training Centre, 16 patwaris through 19 PSC and 8 others have been selected on government posts in year 2017-18.
An expenditure of Rs 110.98 crore has been made to help the youth in establishing their own employment under Chief Minister’s Backward Class Self-employment Scheme in year 2017-18. Information about various schemes of the department will also be given at the Kumbh.