Minister Hemchand Yadav and member of parliament Saroj Pandey, at a meeting held here on Sunday, presented many gifts to the people of Patripar.
According to a press statement issued here on Sunday, the leader duo performed bhumi poojan for a community hall costing Rs 20 lakh at Patripar, Mahila Bhawan costing Rs 3 lakh and cc road at Kadambari Nagar, besides presenting cheques worth Rs 1,000 each to 56 beneficiaries from discretionary fund of minister Hemchand Yadav.
Minister Yadav said that the community hall in Shakti Nagar was a special gift from the BJP government for the poor slum dwellers of Patripar area. Making a scathing attack on the Congress, the minister said that the party never thought to improve the living standard of the poor during its 57-year reign. Along with providing food grains at concessional rate, the BJP government has implemented Mukhyamantri Health Insurance Scheme, free implements, sewing machines, cycles and the likes to the workers and pious works like pilgrimage of aged people.
The Congress could have done these things in its 57-year reign, but did not. However, the BJP government, in its 10-year period has done these things, he said. MP Saroj Pandey, while presiding over the programme, said that on average works costing more than 1 crore has been done in Patripar ward during the last 10 years.
She said that the State BJP Government has renovated the drinking water scheme phase-2, which had been declared ‘dead’ by the Congress Government, with a cost of Rs 100 crore. With the completion of the project the drinking water problem of Patripar would be solved permanently, she added. Corporator Devnarayan Chandrakar, Dr Devnaryan Tandi, Kuleshwari Chandrakar, Rajendra Padhye. Surendra Kaushik, Bharat Yadav, lekhram Yadav, Tamanlal Nirmalkar, Khammandas Manikpuri, Ganesh Sahu and others were present at the programme.