Giving a note of advice to her fellow members in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, Animal Husbandry Minister Kusum Mehdele on Wednesday said that the legislators should control their stray cows and cattle that created disturbance to traffic and the people would learn a lesson from their act.
Mehdele said this while replying to Usha Chowdhary during the Question Hour. In her question, Chowdhary pointed out that frequent accident took place due to movement of stray cows in her assembly constituency Raigaon in Satna District. The Minister said that everyone, including MlAs, should own responsibility to control their cattle as mere enforcing law the problem could not be solved.
Dissatisfied with the Ministers reply, Chowdhary asked whether she would contemplate to bring a law in this regard.
The Minister said that if the member put the question as per the rules, she would consider it. In a related query about encroachment, raised by Bahadur Singh Chouhan, Mehdele said that action would be taken against the encroachers after talking to collector.
Replying to another query of Narendra Singh Kushwah of the BJP regarding alleged irregularities in the Scheduled Caste Slum Development Scheme in Bhind, Tribal Welfare Minister Gyan Singh announced too suspend two officials.
later, Madhya Pradesh Rural Development Minister Gopal Bhargava on Wednesday informed the Assembly that the government would allocate more funds to gram panchayats for increasing incentive amount under the Swakaradhan Yojana from next year.
Replying to a calling attention notice of Archana Chitnis of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Minister said that the government would also provide incentive amount within two days in those gram panchayats where audit was conducted.
Terming the Scheme as beneficial, Chitnis appealed to continue the scheme as it would make the villagers self-sufficient. She said a circular was issued in this regard in 2011 and till 2013 funds were received. Bhargava clarified that the funds for the scheme could not be provided as the Department did not receive funds from Centre under the 13th Finance Commission. The Minister also said to the same calling attention notice of Ramniwas Rawat of Congress that the funds in the scheme would be enhanced.