The process of making caste certificates will be simplified and the village gram sabha will be authorised to do so. This decision was taken during the meeting of the Scheduled Caste Development Authority (SCDA) and Chhattisgarh State Rural Development Authority (CSRDA) chaired by the Chief Minister Raman Singh at the Mantralaya on Friday. It was also decided that detail project reports of various developmental works to be undertaken by SCDA and CSRDA will be called from district collectors as huge amount of money around Rs 140 crore is with both the authority and its timely allocation may not be hampered due to imposing of code of conduct before state assembly elections, said the Chief Minister.
It was also decided that 300 new shops for the unemployed scheduled caste youths under the Minimata Swavalamban Yojana. In the meeting the Chief Minister instructed all the collectors to complete all the incomplete works by June by organising campaigns. He also asked them to start the works sanctioned today within 15 days after selecting the place.
The Chief Minister instructed the officers concerned to organise workshops in all the districts for the simplification of the process for issuance of caste certificates. He said: "We want that as soon as a student passes class 12, he should have the caste certificate of his category", and added that now every case of caste certificate making would not be needed to send at the State level committee and the gram shabha will be involved in the process.
In the first meeting of the Chhattisgarh Rural Area Development Authority held here under the chairmanship of the CM on Friday, 61 general blocks left out from the Sarguja, Bastar and the Scheduled Caste Development Authority have also been included. In the meeting, the Chief Minister said that in the line of grants being given to the farmers by the authorities for out of order irrigation pumps, Rs 50,000 additional grant should be given to the financially weak farmers of general category. Similarly, he said, financially weak girls studying at ITI would be given bicycles.
Home Minister Nankiram Kanwar, PWD Minister Brijmohan Agrawal, food minister Punnulal Mohle, revenue minister Dayaldas Baghel, agriculture minister Chandrashekhar Sahu, MP Chandulal Sahu, vice-president of Scheduled Caste Development Authority Domanlal Kosewada,Kamla Patel, Vishnudev Sai, MlA Krishnamurthy Bandhi, Ramji Bharti, Haridas Bharadwaj, Shiv Daharia, chief secretary Sunil Kumar, ACS DS Mishra and other officers were present at the meeting.
Vikas Yatra logo released
Chief Minister Raman Singh released the logo of Chhattisgarh Vikas Yatra 2013. He informed that bonus for paddy will be distributed during the yatra starting from May 6 which would conclude on June 16 at Ambikapur.
laptops, tablets, solar lamps, solar lanterns etc will be also distributed during the Vikas Yatra. The Government will inform people about what they have done in the past 10 years and what vision it has for the State in the coming five years, the Chief Minister said.