Prime Minister Narendra Modi e-launched “Gharib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan” on Saturday through video conference, in order to give employment to migrant labourers in their home towns and native states. Under this campaign 125 days employment will be provided in 116 districts of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Odisha states.
Those districts have been selected under the campaign, from where over 25,000 labourers move to other states in search for the employment. At the e-launch of the campaign, the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains, Additional Chief Secretary Panchayats and Rural Development Manoj Shrivastava, Principal Secretary to CM Manish Rastogi and other officers were present at Mantralaya. The Chief Ministers and Ministers for Panchayats and Rural Development of the states concerned were also present in their respective states.
Prime Minister Modi said that despite difficulties during the Covid-19 crisis, the migrant labourers after returning to their villages have contributed significantly in the development of their surrounding areas. Deliberating with some labourers, the Prime Minister said that they were accomplishing important works of this century. Till now, they were contributing in developing the cities, now they should develop their villages.
Modi said that he got the inspiration to start this campaign from a labourer, who is skilled in P.O.P. as well as interior decoration work and doing the same work after the return to his village in Uttar Pradesh. This labourer by displaying his skills in his village has done wonder during the lockdown period.
Prime Minister said that 25 work areas have been selected under the Gharib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan, which will become instrumental in improving the lives of the villagers.
These works include construction of community toilets, aaganbadi centers, wells, establishment of rural mandis, cattle sheds, panchayat bhavans, potable water management, plantation and road construction.