In a bid to counter BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s Shankhnaad rally and to make AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi’s public rally a success, which is slated to happen in Dehradun on February 22, Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) convened a day-long special meeting in Dehradun on Saturday. The meeting was presided by Uttarakhand Congress incharge Ambika Soni, co-incharge Sanjay Kapoor and Chief Minister Harish Rawat.
In his address, PCC president Yashpal Arya has categorically appealed the party workers to come in large number to counter the Modi rally. While educating the party workers about the achievements of the Congress-led State Government of the last two years, Cabinet Minister Indira Hridayesh said that to promote agriculture sector, the State Government has decided to give pension to the farmers, who have completed 60 years and still tilling their agriculture land.
To ensure education for all especially schedule caste students, the State Government has decided to provide books free of cost to the students of class IX to XII and decided to open Babu Jagjivan Ram residential school for SC students. The residential school will be open as per the population and if a district having up to five lakh population then one school and if it has more than five lakh then two residential schools will be open by the State Government. Initially, two schools will be open in Haridwar district in next financial year.
To restore basic amenities in disaster affected areas, the State Government has divided entire disaster affected areas into 25 sectors and each sector will be led by SDM level officer. The officer would have authority to execute the project upto Rs one crore. District Magistrate have empowered to execute project up to Rs five crore at their own discretion. Earlier, they were seeking permission from the State Government before executing the project. With this decision the State Government has decentralised the power and will reduce the time between decision and execution.