Himachal Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Wednesday launched the 'Sarkar Gaon Ke Dwaar' program, aimed at solving the problems of the people at their doorstep at Galore of Nadaun assembly constituency in Hamirpur district. As many as 87 complaints were received during the program and he directed to upload all these complaints on the Chief Minister Helpline.
The government is organising the program across the state to make people aware of the various policies, programmes and achievements of the state government during the last one year. The ministers and MLAs would also visit villages to inform people about the public welfare schemes being implemented so that the people could derive maximum benefits from them.
Considering that about 90 percent of the population of the state resides in villages and efforts would be made to strengthen the village economy in the coming budget, said the Chief Minister, adding, "The vision of prosperous Himachal will be realized only when our villages become self-reliant". The target has been set to make Himachal the most prosperous state of the country in the next 10 years, he remarked.
Huge debt was inherited due to excessive borrowings and poor fiscal mismanagement of funds by the previous BJP government, he said, adding that it is not the Congress to be blamed as the State was taking loan just to repay the interests amassed due to excessive loan amount taken by the previous BJP government. "We were well aware of this enormous debt yet fulfilling the promise made to the employees, we restored the OPS in the very first cabinet as promised in our election manifesto", he stated. A request was made to the Central Government to release Rs 9000 crore of NPS but the Union Government has not heeded to our request. Perhaps the Central Government was not in favour of restoring the OPS to the State employees, he said.
Sukhu said the state government is filling 20 thousand posts in various government departments. Along with this, projects related to e-taxi and solar energy have been started to promote self-employment. 4000 orphan children have been adopted as Children of the State. The state government will assist Rs 1.50 lakh to single women and widows to build houses. The Government will make provision for opening schools and colleges for special children in the next budget.