The Chhattisgarh Government will get done a unique ‘Drone Cinematography’ of the State to showcase development made since its inception, officials informed.
The cinematography will be done in all districts of the State. Chief Minister Raman Singh had recently revealed in his journey of 5,000 days in office, there has been significant increase in number of educational institutes as number of primary schools has increased from 13,000 to 38,000, middle schools from 5,000 to 16, 500 and high schools from 600 to 3715.
Dropout rate has decreased from 11 per cent to one per cent. Higher education sector has also undergone revolution. In year 2003, there was no national-level institute in State.
Number of Government universities has increased from 3 to 13, while number of Government colleges has increased from 116 to 224 at present. Number of medical colleges has increased from 2 to 10, number of engineering colleges has increased from 12 to 50, number of agriculture colleges has increased from 4 to 21, polytechnic institutes from 10 to 51, ITI from 61 to 176, number of hostels and ashram schools for children of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe has increased from 1,837 to 3,250.
Chief Minister also talked about the electricity production and development of related infrastructure. He informed that electricity production in state has increased from 4732 MW to 22,764 MW.
Number of High Tension Power Substations has increased from 28 to 96. Transmission lines have extended from 5,205 circuit km to 11,522 circuit km. State’s electricity transmission capacity has increased from 1350 MW to 6,350 MW. Singh told listeners that in these 5,000 days, average per capita electricity consumption has increased from 350 units to 1,724 unit, which is highest in the country.
“We are providing free electricity supply of 7,500 units annually to farmers of State. Number of electric pump connections has increased from 72,000 to nearly 4 lakh. He said power-cuts are the things of past for the State, which is another major achievement of State in last 5,000 days.
Singh said, “A good network of roads is being developed in State. In past 5,000 days, 60,000 kms ofroads, 1200 bridges, and more than 23,000 culverts have been constructed. To expand the rail network, PPP model based strategy has been chalked out. Previously in 150 years, only 1187 kms of road network was built in state, where as our government has begun to work towards the target of developing 1300 kms of additional rail route. Soon, many districts of state will be linked with railway facilities.”
The Chhattisgarh Government will also form an “Investment Advisory Council” to provide a major boost to attracting industrial investment to the State. A decision to this effect was taken at the 14th meeting of State Investment Promotion Board here recently.
The Council would work towards creating an environment for boosting commercial and industrial activities in the State, an official press release issued here on Friday informed.
Notably, Chhattisgarh was ranked fourth among the “top five States” in the country, as per the ‘Ease of Doing Business’ ranking made by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Government of India in 2015-16.
As part of the first authentic and comprehensive assessment ever undertaken in India, the State was ranked 4th among 32 States and UTs of the country, officials had stated.
Gujarat had topped with a score of 71.14 % followed by Andhra Pradesh (70.12%), Jharkhand ( 63.09 %), Chhattisgarh ( 62.45%) and Madhya Pradesh ( 62%).
This was as per the detailed assessment undertaken by DIPP and validated by World Bank, covering 285 parameters, spanning across eight critical areas viz. setting up a business, allotment of land and obtaining construction permit, complying with environmental procedures, complying with labour regulations, obtaining infrastructure-related utilities, registering and complying with tax procedures, carrying out inspections and enforcing contracts, they had stated.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh had congratulated all participating departments, in general and Department of Commerce and Industries in particular, for their contribution that has led to the State attaining such credible ranking.
He said, “It is a matter of great pleasure and pride to be recognized and acknowledged at the national level as one of the top five States providing congenial business environment.In addition to this, ‘Competitive Cost of Doing Business’ is another major offering which makes Chhattisgarh as the most preferred Investment Destination, Singh had stated.