The State Government has prepared a strategy to uproot corruption from different departments under which legal action would be initiated against the corrupt, said the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat while addressing a programme organised to commemorate 102 birth anniversary of late Pandit Ram Sumer Shukla at Rudrapur on Tuesday. Reiterating the stand of his government on corruption, the CM said that corrupt would be brought to book.
Hailing the role of Shukla in facilitating settlements in Tarai area, Rawat said that the State Government is committed for maintaining the dignity of the freedom fighters and their dependents and the Government has doubled their pension from Rs 4000 to Rs 8000. He said that the task of making the rural and urban areas of the state open defecation free would be achieved by March 2018. Appreciating the farmers of Udam Singh Nagar for being at top in the field of agriculture Rawat said that resolving problems of farmers is on priority of the government. He said that 39000 farmers have been provided a loan of Rs 1 lakh at an interest rate of only 2 percent. The CM said that the loan limit could be extended on the response of the scheme. He declared that the dependent of the martyrs of paramilitary forces would be provided government job. Rawar assured the work on Rudrapur medical college would be soon initiated and claimed that the government is taking effective measures to deploy doctors in the hospitals. The CM also felicitated Satendra Singh (Agriculture), Chandra Arora (animal husbandry), Abhishek Agarwal (industry), Kishan Veer Singh (education), Manoj Suyal (financial literacy), Gauri Mishra (literature), Srinivas Sharma (higher education), Jaya Mishra (community service), Dr S P Singh (science), Himanshu Bansal (medicine), Mahesh Jha (music) and Sanjay Chabra (sanitation) on the occasion. Guest of honour Shiv Prakash said that Pandit Shukla played a big role in the freedom struggle. The Kichha MlA Rajesh Shukla gave a detailed account of life and works of Pandit Shukla.
Finance Minister Prakash Pant, Social Welfare Minister Yashpal Arya, former MP Bachhi Singh Rawat MlAs Kamlesh Shukla, Pushkar Singh Dhami and large number of leaders and general public was present on the occasion.