To give a fillip to the intellect of the youth of Chhattisgarh, the State Government has started —Mukhyamantri Yuva Bharat Darshan Yojana — a scheme of its kind which will provide opportunity to the youths to travel and see selected important and historical places of the country collectively, in groups.
A total of 900 youths of Balod will be benefited by this scheme, said Collector Amrit khalkho.
Under this scheme selected youths who are in 18 to 35 ages will get the opportunity to see important places of the country. Journey under this scheme will take place through special trains and the expenses incurred in travelling and dinning will be borne by the Sports and Youth Welfare department through ‘Mukhyamantri Bharat Darshan Yojana Samiti’.
Collector Khalkho stated this while chairing a meeting to implement this auspicious scheme in district office on Saturday.
Under this scheme two youths from each ward from urban regions and two youths from each Gram Panchayats from rural regions would be selected. Youth should be bonafide residents of the State to be eligible for this scheme, and in current fiscal year he or she should have attained the age of 18 year, by April 1 and should not be of more than 35 year old, the official added.
Khalkho said aspirant should be mentally and physically fit for long journey and shouldn’t have availed the opportunity under this scheme earlier and added that maximum 20 tours would be embarked on in a fiscal.
In block level, applications from aspirants would be accepted by the office of block education officers and in district headquarters level by the District Sports Officer’s office till 2nd of August.
On August 3, applications will be referred to districts by block level offices with recommendations and on 4th these applications would be finally sent to State level, with recommendations.
Collector said that committees have been formed to select the candidates and to ensure proper implementation of the scheme.
Minister in charge of the district will be the chairpersons of such committees, collectors would be handling the responsibilities of deputy chairpersons, he added.
Superintendent of Police, Chief Medical Officers, District Education officers, Asst Commissioner Tribal Developments, District Women and Child development Officers would be the members of such committee. Collector informed.