Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has called upon the people to cooperate in eradicating poverty and diseases from the country. He said that in the next 5 years, the cities of the state will be the most clean, beautiful and advanced cities in the country. The government is working to empower the poor, farmers and women considering it as service to God. Chouhan was addressing a state-level Nagar Vikas Parv in Sagar today.
On the occasion he also announced to make Sagar Development Authority and Karrapur as Nagar Panchayat. E-foundation and dedication of urban development works worth more than Rs 14 thousand crores was undertaken.
Chief Minister Chouhan said that development of the cities is on in full swing in the state. Arrangement of pure drinking water was made in a single day in all the 378 urban bodies of the state on Vikas Parv. He called upon the poor to come together for development.
Chouhan said the government is making efforts to get full value for the sweat and hard work of the farmer and Rs 33000 crore assistance has been provided to state’s farmers in one year under various schemes. He said that the government has enacted a law to punish the rapists with death penalty. He also informed about the punishment of death by hanging given to a rapist in the Rehli, Sagar incident in just 40 days.
Urban Development and Housing Minister Maya Singh told that the budget for urban development for the year 2003 was only Rs 807 crores which has been increased to Rs 11 thousand 559 crores that is nearly 8 times more. He said that more than Rs 14 thousand crore worth schemes are being dedicated for the first time in the history of the state.
Certificates of claim amounts of Sagar district’s farmers of Kharif -2017 were distributed during the programme to 124888 farmers of 11 Tehsils in Sagar district worth Rs 242.18 crores.
Among those present on the occasion were Panchayat and Rural Development, Social Justice and Disabled Welfare Minister Gopal Bhargav, Home and Transport Minister Bhupendra Singh.