Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Monday announced to constitute Valmiki Kalyan Board in the State. While addressing a public meeting at Maniara in Palampur, the Chief Minister said the State Government cares for all the sections of the society and boards for various communities, may it be Brahmin, Rajput, Gaddi, Gujjar etc. had been constituted to ensure their welfare.
“The constitution of such welfare boards helps the communities to represent themselves and table their grievances before the Government in an effective manner”, he said. Virbhadra Singh said the State Government was committed to provide basic education to each and every child. Though there were few schools having strength of less than 20, the Government still was committed to go ahead with such schools as it did not want to bereave any child of basic education.
“The primary level education needs to be strengthened more,” he said, adding that if the results of the primary schools were not upto the mark, strict administrative action would be taken against the teachers. He added that responsibility of teachers would also be fixed at the primary level.
“The Government would also contemplate starting written exams at primary level so as to check the performance of both the children and teachers”, he added. Singh also said that the Government has decided to start subjects like Maths, English and Hindi from first class, and added that there was a need to tighten the noose around those teachers who deter from the responsibility.
The Chief Minister said that under MNREGS a budget amounting to Rs761.71 crore was marked for the State but as of today only Rs355.78 crore have been received by the State Government. “We have urged the Union Government for more funds under the scheme”, he informed. Earlier in the morning, the Chief Minister paid obeisance at the Brijeshwari temple in Kangra and directed to widen the road leading to the temple from Maple hospital and asked to ensure proper provision for drainage.