Hitting out at Congress, the Bharatiya Janta Party is its ‘Vision Document’ for Himachal Pradesh has promised welfare schemes, named after Gudiya and Hoshiyar, to keep a check on crime rate in the State.
The BJP has also promised installation of a 24X7 ‘Hoshiyar Helpline’ in Chief Minister’s office to deal with complaints against mafia and women police stations under Gudiya Yojana in the State.
The vision document for the party was released by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Shimla. Union Health Minister J P Nadda, former Chief Ministers Shanta Kumar and Prem Kumar Dhumal and party State president Satpal Singh Satti were present on the occasion.
In an attempt to address the most routine issues of the State , BJP in its vision document for Himachal Pradesh has repeated some of its promises, which the Central Government had assured the nation, time and again.
While the saffron party has repeated its promise of doubling the farm income by 2022 and housing for all by 2022, it has also made some State specific promises in the vision document.
The party has announced that all its MlAs would make a public declaration of their assets.
The BJP has promised constitution of ‘Major Somnath Vahini’ in which ex-servicemen would be recruited to put a check on cases of theft, dacoity and drugs.
The party also announced to constitute a joint task force of mining, forest and police departments to put an end to illegal mining.
For infrastructure sector, supply of potable water through taps in each house, connecting every village with road and making emergency medical services accessible in villages have been promised in vision document.
In education, the BJP has promised that interviews will be done away with for Grade 3 and Grade 4 Government jobs, free laptops and tablets for college students, free Wi-Fi connectivity to all Government schools and annual employment fairs in rural areas would be conducted.
Also, the students belonging to BPl family would get free education up to graduation level.
For agriculture sector, other than doubling income of farmers of State by 2022, including all farmers under Fasal Bima Yojana, enhancing compensation for farmers on acquisition of their land from double to four times. A Horticulture University in the State has also been promised.
For generating employment, the BJP has announced developing new tourist destinations besides creating
‘Devbhoomi Darshan Circuit’, allowing Home-stays at new areas and a fund for developing state as International Health Tourism Centre.
Except women police stations, Sashakt Stri Kendras in all panchayats to empower women at rural level is also promised by the BJP, which hopes to wrest power from the Congress in November 9 assembly polls.