Releases manifesto ahead of general elections
Samruddha Odisha on Sunday announced its 46-point manifesto for the upcoming lok Sabha and Assembly polls with the promise of removing poverty in five years and making the administration people centric if voted to power.
Releasing the manifesto here, party president Jatish Chandra Mohanty said that the main focus of his outfit would be development of agriculture and allied sector, alleviation of poverty, checking unemployment by creating skilled manpower, development of infrastructure, protection of mineral resources and empowerment of youth, women, SCs and STs and disadvantaged section, apart from removing corruption and ensuring transparency in administration.
The manifesto promises to make Odisha among the five most developed States in the country in a period of five years, he said, adding that all high standard infrastructure would created in education and health sector to ensure that all villages get health care facilities with provision of doctors in each hospital and teachers in each school.
The manifesto assures to remove poverty and take steps to ensure increase in the income of each family to `10,000 per month, help poor families cross the BPl, bring administration to the door steps of the people and provide jobs for at least 200 days per annum to all the daily wager families.
The manifesto further stressed on making the State self sufficient on agriculture and horticulture products by increasing per acreage production as well as boosting the meat and egg production. While steps would be taken to provide Rs 250 minimum wage to agricultural workers per day, there would be consistent efforts at checking migration of labourers and ensuring that all farmers get income to the tune of `50,000 per month per acre. Besides, the party would fix affordable prices for all agricultural and related products for the consumers. The vegetable prices would not cross `30 per kg, Mohanty said.
He said that as per the manifesto, all the persons above 60 years of age in a peasant family would be provided Rs 700 as pension per month and `500 to each senior citizen and handicapped person.
Similarly, the farmers would be provided crop loan for Kharif and Rabi seasons by October and May positively. The irrigation coverage to 75 per cent of land in each block and electricity to farm sector at affordable rate are also the top priorities of the party, Mohanty disclosed.
Stating that both civil and police administration would be free from political intervention, steps would be taken to bring law and order under control within six months of assuming power, he said. Mohanty said charge-sheet would be filed in women atrocity cases within 15 days and the cases would be finalized within two months by mobile courts.
Among other things, the party also promised to initiate steps to punish the people involved in chit fund scam within six months and return the money of the depositors within a year after forfeiting the property of the scamsters. To a question Mohanty said that his party would announce the list of candidates for the Assembly and lok Sabha elections by February 15 next.
He said that Samruddha Odisha would fight elections highlighting the misrule of the BJD Government led by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. Since the Samruddha Odisha is a constituent of the Jana Samukhya, a platform of 13 parties, the question of pre and post poll alliance would be decided on merit, Mohanty said.