Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan reiterated his commitment to ensuring socio-economic advancemen of the weaker sections. No poor will remain landless. The Mukhyamantri Bhu-Adhikar Yojana is under implementation in the interest of the poor. Land titles were given to 27,000 people in Shivpuri.
Residential plots will be made available to anyone. Soon a college will be established at Bairad in Pohri. He was addressing tendupatta collectors in Pohri district Shivpuri today.
Chouhan said that the tribal people are being empowered by improving access to water, forests and land. The tendu patta collectors are being given shoes, slippers, sarees, water bottles, umbrellas and other essential items under CM Charanpaduka Yojana.
Chouhan welcomed the beneficiaries by showering flowers. The Chief Minister dedicated and performed bhoomi-pujan for various development works worth Rs 77 crore. The Chief Minister offerred charanpadukas to Kanti Bai and Smt. Mamta and handed over sarees and water bottles to them.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, State Forest Minister Vijay Shah, Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Mahendra Singh Sisodia, Minister of State for Public Works Suresh Dhakad other public representatives were present.
Chouhan said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, a campaign for the welfare of the poor is in progress. Soon Prime Minister Modi will hand over keys of houses to the beneficiaries under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. Every needy family will have housing facilities. The families who could not get housing unit under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, will be helped construct houses under the Mukhyamantri Jan Awas Yojana. No family will be deprived of housing facility.
The Chief Minister said that it is our resolve to transform the lives of poor families. Arrangements for education, treatment, assistance in marriage have been made. Under Mukhyamantri Seekho-Kamao Yojana the youth can enhance their skills while getting a stipend of Rs 8,000 per month. Students should study well, cycles and scooties are provided to the students to encourage and support them.
In order to empower women, Rs. one thousand per month is being given to the Ladli Bahna Yojana, which will be gradually hiked to Rs three thousand. Under the Teerth Darshan Yojana, arrangements have been made to take elderly persons of the family on pilgrimage by air. The previous government had stopped the public welfare schemes.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said that continuous activities have been conducted for the development of the area by arranging roads, canals, education etc. in Pohri area. Roads were constructed in this area at a cost of Rs 124 crore.
Forest Minister Vijay Shah and Minister Suresh Dhakad also addressed on the occasion.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia performed bhoomi-pujan of 6 projects costing Rs 59 crore 47 lakh. In these projects, under Water Resources Department, at a cost of Rs 3 crore 38 lakh, Katengara stop cum causeway, Rs 2 crore 43 lakh Phulipura stop dam, Rs 3 crore 94 lakh Berja stop dam cum causeway and Rs 4 crore 71 lakh Bilwara. Stop dam cum causeway, upgradation work of 2.70 kilometer road from Devpura road to Shankarpur road at a cost of Rs. 2 crore 53 lakh under Public Works Department and Rs. 50 tap-water schemes are included.
During the program organized in Pohri, 7 development works worth Rs 17 crore 5 lakh 32 thousand were inaugurated, in which Rs. 3 crore 31 lakh Akursi stop dam cum causeway under Water Resources Department.