Chief Minister Raman Singh on Thursday said that deliberations over forming a ‘land Donation Board’ in Chhattisgarh would be actively held in the State.
The Sarvodaya workers while meeting the Chief Minister during his ‘Jandarshan programme’ held at his residence here stated that the land Donation Board was dissolved after the bifurcation of Madhya Pradesh, due to which all the records related to the Board was handed over to Revenue Department of Madhya Pradesh. But Chhattisgarh has not yet received any of these records.
They stated that some people are also trying to sell off the donated land, which is wrong and requested the Chief Minister to get the records of land in Chhattisgarh from Madhya Pradesh Government and also insisted for reconstitution of land Donation Board in Chhattisgarh.
The Chief Minister said that Madhya Pradesh will be sent a letter for retrieval of the records. He further said that the officials will be instructed to investigate and take necessary action, if complaints about people selling off donated land are received.
Singh assured Sarvodaya workers that strong initiatives will also be taken to retrieve records of the land in Chhattisgarh, which was received as donation during Acharya Vinoba Bhave’s land Donation Yagna movement in year 1960, from Madhya Pradesh.
Panth Ram Verma and his other veteran companions handed over a memorandum to the Chief Minister in the context, requesting that the Government Higher Secondary School of village Marra in Patan block should be named after ‘Acharya Vinoba Bhave,’ who is the source of inspiration for Sarvodaya and Bhu Daan Yagna Movement.
“During his bhu-daan padyatra days, Vinoba ji had visited this village in year 1964,” They stated in the memorandum.
Singh immediately accepted the request of Sarvodaya workers and directed the Secretary of Education Department to ensure naming of the school after Acharya Vinoba Bhave by August 15.
It was also stated in the memorandum that Acharya Vinoba Bhave had travelled across the country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari in nearly 13 years, during 1950-1960 decade. He had conducted a public awareness movement to motivate people for donating land to the landless people across country.
During this movement, nearly 45 lakh acres of land was received. Out of which, nearly 24.49 lakh acres of land was distributed in various States of the country. In the then Madhya Pradesh, 4.10 lakh acres of land was received as donation, out of which nearly 2.37 lakh acres of land has been distributed. This distributed land includes about 12,000 acre land of Durg district in Chhattisgarh.
On request of Panth Ram and Sarvodaya workers, Chief Minister immediately approved the discretionary fund of `40,000 for under-construction cowshed in village Kauhi of Patan block.
Moreover, during the Jandarshan programme, Singh paid patient hearing to the grievances of people and delegations from various districts of the State. About 1350 people including 600 members of 85 delegations and 744 people with individual applications met the Chief Minister at the Jandarshan programme.
The Chief Minister forwarded the applications to concerned departments and issued instructions to take necessary action as per the rules.
Singh approved financial aid from Sanjeevani Kosh to nine applicants. Moreover, he gave approval to a dozen of construction works worth nearly `34 lakh.
A delegation of Assistant Engineers from Water Resource Department handed over memorandum to Singh stating that 87 Assistant Engineers of the Department are serving on the same post since last 30 years.
They requested Chief Minister to promote these engineers to higher posts. They suggested that State government can create posts in other construction-related departments for this purpose.
Singh assured them of considering their demands and forwarded the memorandum to General Administration Department for immediate examination. The Chief Minister directed the officials concerned to present the case as soon as possible.
A delegation of people from Gram Panchayat Headquarters Nikum of Durg district handed over memorandum to Singh on behalf of their Sarpanch Sharda Singh Dhruv and conveyed the demand of recruiting adequate number of teachers, in proportion to the number of students enrolled in Higher Secondary School of their Gram Panchayat. They requested the Chief Minister that at least one additional lecturer and one additional science teacher should be appointed in the school as soon as possible.
Singh sent the memorandum to School Education Minister Kedar Kashyap.
Member of District Panchayat Kanker Krishna Kumar Mandawai also met Chief Minister and requested for ‘Pachri construction’ at stop dam of Matwada on River Chinar near village Muddongri of Kanker District.
He also demanded construction of an 80-metre long high quality bridge en route Muddongri-Kokpur-Kanker over River Chinar.
Moreover, Sarpanchs and villagers of Gram Panchayats Sankanpalli and Engpalli of Bijapur district also met the Chief Minister. Sarpanch of Sankanpalli Veena Palam handed over memorandum to Chief Minister demanding construction of stop dam on Chintavagu River and repairing of 10-km long road from National Highway to Sankanpalli.
She also conveyed the demand of electrification in several hamlets of the Gram Panchayat. likewise, Sarpanch of Engpalli Gram Panchayat Kamla Manjhi and other handed over memorandum to Chief Minister, requesting for solar energy system to operate tube-wells for unobstructed drinking-water supply.
A large number of other applicants also put up their applications before the Chief Minister for their quick redressal at the Jandarshan programme.