The Chhattisgarh Government is moving ahead with a clear vision, strategy and action plan to achieve the goals set by Niti Aayog, Chief Minister Raman Singh said on Sunday.
The Chief Minister was speaking at the Governing Council meeting of Niti Aayog in New Delhi. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided over the meeting, attended by Union Ministers and Chief Ministers of various States.
He said over 20,000 youths of Naxal affected regions of the State were given training in skill development. Cleanliness drive under Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan has increased up to 84 per cent in Chhattisgarh and will become an open defecation free State by October 2, 2018.
Singh said Chhattisgarh with the help of its resources is working on a rapid action plan to increase mobile and internet connectivity in remote tribal areas.
The Chief Minister said the State is getting good results from the innovations started under the inspiration and guidance from the Prime Minister.He said that Chhattisgarh is the first State to make legislation and give rights to skill development for youths.
Taking the skill enhancement programme to a different level the government started livelihood colleges in every district. Seeing the necessity of skill development, the state government is spending over Rs 400 crore from its budget annually, Singh said.
He suggested that a quality arrangement should be made by sector skill council to provide training of evaluators and trainers.For effective implementation of Swachh bharat, the State government has worked on the strategy of providing encouragement amount to the beneficiaries only after three months of toilet construction, Singh said.
Drawing attention towards the unused toilets, the chief minister urged that a proposal to make unused toilet usable should be sanctioned, the Chief Minister said.He said that under the vision document 2030, the State government is working on achieving five targets. The State is focusing on removal of poverty, strengthening the panchayats, providing nutrition, health facilities, quality education, safe drinking water and strengthening infrastructure, the Chief Minister said.
Supporting GST, the Chief Minister said we are moving fast towards its implementation.
He suggested that e-portal by GSTN should be made easy and convenient for businessmen and said that module of the form filled by businessmen should be provided to them in advance so that they get used to the new system, Singh said.
Additional Chief Secretary N Baijendra Kumar was also present at the meeting.