Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan met Defence and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in New Delhi on Sunday and urged that military land adjoining the National Memorial at Mhow on the birthplace of Bharat Ratna Baba Saheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar to transferred to Madhya Pradesh Government.
Chief Minister Chouhan discussed various important issues with the Finance Minister and urged that amount under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, other centrally-sponsored schemes and relief distributed to hailstorm-affected farmers should be reimbursed. He also discussed cooperatives scenario in the state and extension of ceiling of market borrowings.
The Chief Minister urged Defence Minister Arun Jaitley to transfer to Madhya Pradesh Government the 4.52 acre land under survey number 88 adjoining the National Memorial on the birthplace of Bharat Ratna Baba Saheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar at Mhow, where massive crowd turns up every year on the birthday of Baba Saheb.
In this context, he also referred to a state government’s letter wherein a proposal has been made to hand over to army revenue land in lieu of military land. In fact, except for military land, there is no other alternative suitable land near the memorial.The Chief Minister had to make this appeal especially since the army has started construction in this area. He urged the Defence Minister for special intervention in the matter.The Chief Minister informed the Union Minister that unseasonal rains and hailstorm in March 2014 had affected crops in 30 lakh hectares of 32 lakh farmers.
Chouhan also informed about human and cattle losses. For this, the state government had urged the Centre for a Rs5963 crore special package. The State Government has distributed relief and crop loss compensation to the tune of Rs2150 crore. The Chief Minister urged the Centre to reimburse this.
Union Finance and Defence Minister gave a patient hearing to the Chief Minister and assured of every possible cooperation.