While addressing a seminar on ‘Uttarakhand: Direction of Future (Uttarakhand Bhavishya ki dishayen)’ organised on the occasion of completion of 100 days of Trivendra Singh Rawat Government at the Chief Minister’s residence in Dehradun on Sunday, CM Trivendra Singh Rawat said that the State Government is all set to create a Whatsapp group involving the people to get their suggestions on how the State government can perform better. Even the senior bureaucrats would be involved to ensure that the State progresses by leaps and bounds with the involvement of one and all, Rawat said.
With most of the attendees being college students, the youngsters from the state expressed their views of how the State Government should ideally function to ensure all-round development of all. They also spoke of roadmaps, spelling out how the plans are to be firmed up and how they are to be executed on the ground to reach out to all and sundry. They said that if their suggestions are acted upon it would mark a developmental milestone for the mountain state.
Appreciating the suggestions given by the youngsters, CM Rawat said that he would organise such seminars at the local as well as the district levels in the coming days. “I can assure you that my government would leave no stone unturned to implement your suggestions on the ground,” he added.
While the students of the Government Doon Medical College based in Dehraudn suggested measures of how to improve the quality of the health service at the facility where thousands from across the State throng aside from providing adequate facilities to those living in the remote areas of the state those from the government-run nursing college in Dehradun apprised the CM and others of the hardships the people from the remote areas are facing due to scanty infrastructure, and staff crunch. They said that PHCs and CHCs should be attached to the medical college while stressing on Telemedicine. They also said that to bring qualitative improvement in the nursing service, a written test should be conducted to recruit nurses.
Students from DAV (PG) College, Dehradun made presentation on how the state’s primary and higher school education can be improved by giving emphasis on behavior and culture. Education syllabus should be changed to make it more constructive and development-oriented. They also highlighted the challenges being posed by the governmental stress on a switch to cashless economy.
Students from THDC(IHT), New Tehri suggested how the quality of the management can be improved with the help of digitization while those from GB Pant Engineering College, Pauri laid emphasis on measures the state government should take to generate employment opportunity through Skill India programme. They also apprised of how they are imparting technical education and training for the youth of the nearby villages and how they are running their business form their villages.
Students of the Women Industrial Institute (WIT) grabbed the attention of people by raising the issues of the declining trend in the girls’ education in proportion to their declining sex ratio. Stress was laid on helping the girls be independent through education.
Students from SGRR(PG) College based at Bhandaribagh in Dehradun highlighted the importance of conserving biodiversity while those from MKP, Dehradun made presentation on providing every family with a toilet under Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) and also on providing every village with safe and clean drinking water.
Others laid emphasis on how the state can be developmentally transformed through tourism, medical health, electricity, water, employment and home for the poor. later, the winners were given cash prizes along with certificates.
Aside from the Chief Minister, a host of cabinet ministers like Satpal Maharaj, Yashpal Arya, Arvind Pandey, Madan Kaushik, Subodh Uniyal and Dhan Singh Rawat were present. Among the bureaucrats, the chief secretary S Ramaswami and additional chief secretary to CM Omprakash were present