Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan visited Morena on Saturday with many gifts. He said that a medical college will be opened in Morena, while the best modern medical facilities will be made available in the entire district and Chambal project worth Rs 135 crores will be given final shape for drinking water supply in Morena city.
Along with this announcement, Chouhan also announced the construction of a magnificent auditorium in the name of former Prime Minister Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Morena city and opening of a college at Rithoura in Morena district.
Chouhan along with Union Minister of Agriculture, Panchayati Raj and Rural Development, Narendra Singh Tomar and Rajya Sabha MP Jyotiraditya Scindia dedicated and performed bhoomi poojan of 27 development works costing Rs 268.59 crore for the planned development of Morena city and rural.
This includes the dedication of 8 development works costing Rs 184.60 crore and bhoomi pujan of development works costing nearly Rs 84 crores.
Chief Minister Chouhan also distributed assistance to about two dozen beneficiaries under various welfare schemes of the government.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that the central and state government together are writing a new chapter of development. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given possession of pucca houses to 1.75 lakh beneficiaries. This series of development will continue. He said that approval in-principle has been given to Chambal Atal Progress-Way project costing RsRs round development of Chambal region on the initiative of Union Minister Tomar. Atal Progress-Way will not be just a road, it will have an industrial corridor on either side through which thousands of youth will get employment.
He said that with the efforts of Union Minister Tomar, Sainik School is going to open on the Bhind and Morena district border.
Chouhan reiterated that the state government is working with the basic mantra ‘Gharib ki Thali Kabhi Na Rahe Khali”.
For this, the government will start distributing ration to the remaining poor families at the rate of Re one per kg through a massive campaign on September 16.
He asked the public representatives and officials present in the programme to search for the remaining eligible families in the district so that no family remains deprived of the benefits of the scheme.
The Chief Minister also said that the government is providing financial assistance of Rs 10,000 each without interest to those working on the footpath such as cobblers (boot-polish), vegetable-fruit sellers, roadside barber shops, kachori-samosa sellers and other small-scale traders so as to enable them to do their business better. Chouhan said that previous electricity bills have been postponed to reduce the burden of electricity bill.
On this occasion, the Chief Minister said that the farmer-friendly government is in power in the State.
The Government is going to deposit Rs 4,600 crore of crop insurance in the accounts of 20.04 lakh farmers on September 18 this month.
The government has purchased mustard, wheat etc. crops from farmers on support price.