Water Resources Minister Jayant Malaiya has said that good social service works yield better results. Describing social service as a pious work, he urged every section of society to adopt it. Malaiya was addressing a function where State-level Ramji Mahajan Awards of Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare Department were distributed to backward class social workers at Samanvay Bhavan here today.
The programme was presided over by MP Narendra Singh Tomar while Backward Classes Welfare Minister Ajay Vishnoi and Farmers Welfare Minister Ramkrishna Kusmaria were also especially present.
Jayant Malaiya said that one award should also be given for publicising information about welfare schemes for backward classes. MP Narendra Singh Tomar said that schemes yield good results if policy and intention are good. Schemes are successful only when administrator has goodwill for all sections. Remembering late Ramji Mahajan, he said that his style of functioning and motivational life will always remain a source of inspiration.
Tomar also gave information about remarkable achievements made in Madhya Pradesh in agriculture, sports and other sectors after year 2002-03.
Giving information about schemes for backward classes’ welfare, Ajay Vishnoi said that departmental budget which was only Rs 70 crore in year 2002-03 has been increased to Rs 537 crore now. Award money of Ramji Mahajan Awards has also been increased from Rs 25,000 each to Rs one lakh each.
Earlier, the number of awards was 3 which was increased to 8 and then 16 now. Referring to pre and post-matric scholarships, foreign study scholarship, training programmes, arrangements for hostels etc, he said that earlier only 2 schemes were being run and now numerous schemes are being implemented. Ramkrishna Kusmaria said that backward classes have glorious past.
Not only the state, this section has been instrumental in country’s upliftment also. At the programme, 16 social workers of backward classes were conferred Ramji Mahajan Awards consisting of Rs. one lakh and citation each. Of these, 8 were men and 8 women. Among women social workers, the awards were conferred to Seema Bharti, Chhindwara, Jyoti Verma, Bhopal, Kamla Yadav, Sagar, Kalpana Sarkar, Hoshangabad, Shobha Rajput lodhi, Chhatarpur, Rekha Rani Soni, Datia, Neelima Ghorse, Chhindwara and Manisha Gaur, Indore. The male backward class awardees included Ajmer Singh, Bhind, Narayan Singh Kushwaha, Bhopal, Yadavlal Chauhan, Indore, Vishnu Kumar Arya, Sagar, Rajaram Gujarati Patidar, Bhopal, Subhash Chaurasia, Jabalpur, Shambhu Dayal Baghel, Gwalior and Salagram Kurmi, Sagar. Haj Committee Chairman Sanwar Patel, former Minister laxminarayan Yadav, former corporation Chairman Sardar Singh Dangas, a number of other public representatives and distinguished citizens were present on the occasion.