Chhattisgarh Assembly on Monday passed on voice vote Rs 1,870.15 crore budget grant demands of revenue and disaster management, rehabilitation, higher education, technical education, manpower planning and science and technology departments, informed in an official statement issued here on Monday.
Minister of these departments Prem Prakash Pandey gave the members detailed information about the provisions of the budget. He informed the House that in the new budget, provision of Rs 1,078.28 crore has been made for land revenue, district administration, Government press, rehabilitation and disaster management related to revenue department and works related to PWD.
Whereas, budget proposal of Rs 521.70 crore for higher education department, Rs 288.54 crore for technical education and manpower planning department and Rs 17.70 crore for science and technology department have been passed on voice vote.
Pandey told the House that in accordance to the budget declaration of chief minister Dr Raman Singh, facility of free of cost education upto graduation level would be provided to all girls of Chhattisgarh.
In addition, loan will be made available at 1 per cent interest for higher education. For the students of Naxal-hit districts interest free loan will be made available for higher education.
On each two village panchayats one Patwari Halka will be formed. Earlier, the number of Patwari Halka was 3086, now it has increased to 4841. The appointment of 590 patwaris, selected last year, will be done in a month or two. This year, the department has made a target of selecting 1,305 patwaris.
Pandey said that MoU has been signed with National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) for the preparation of drawing of ten urban areas of the state through aerial survey. According to the MoU the drawings of Raipur, Durg, Bhilai, Rajnandgaon, Sarguja, Raigarh, Dhamtari, Bilaspur, Jagdalpur and Korba will be prepared at large scale.
The minister said that massive step has been taken to give higher education facility to the youths of the state. Appointment orders of 581 assistant professors in 27 subjects, selected by Chhattisgarh Public Services Commission, have been issued. Besides, a provision has been made to appoint guest lecturers. At present, 1020 guest lecturers are giving their services in colleges.
He said that the skill development of the youths of the state is the top priority of the government.To provide training facility in different vocations, livelihood Colleges are being opened in all the 27 districts. For that a provision of Rs 69 crore has been made in the budget for the year 2014-15.