Grabbing Prime Minister’s praise for Chhattisgarh bright results by both hands, Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh said within a short span of 12 years, Chhattisgarh has registered rapid growth in the fields of Agriculture, Irrigation, Public Distribution System, School education, Higher Education, power production and other sectors.
This is reflected in the statement of the Prime Minister of this country who has “recognised out efforts and progress at their face value”. This will work as elixir for us undoubtedly to take our success story forward, but the real credit for this achievement goes to the hard-working people and result oriented working of administration.
According to the Chief Minister, farmers, workers, Government officials and people from trade and industry are working in tandem as a team for the betterment of this State and this is the reason why in a scenario of global slowdown, State GDP of Chhattisgarh is maintaining double digit growth for past many years in running.
“Our rate of agricultural growth is ahead of the national average as also we are leading in terms of per capita power consumption (as per Central Government statistics for 2011 Chhattisgarh has 1547 unit per capita consumption annually).”
According to economic survey of 2012-13 annual per capita income of Chhattisgarh (Gross Domestic Product at the existing rate) is expected to touch the figure of Rs52,689 in comparison to Rs40,166 in 2010-11 and Rs46,743 in 2011-12.
He expressed the hope that Chhattisgarh growth journey will continue in the years to come and in near future it would be standing at first position in the line of leading States.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Friday praised Chhattisgarh in Rajya Sabha while delivering vote of thanks on the speech of President saying that some of the earlier Bimaru States have made rapid growth in recent years and Chhattisgarh is one of them. Chhattisgarh’s growth which was 2.9 per cent in 201-02 to 2005-06 has increased to average 10 percent between 2006-07 to 2010-11, just after Bihar which is leading the pack with 10.9 per cent growth rate, the Prime Minister reported mentioned in his written speech.Chhattisgarh has drawn the praise of the Prime Minister as well as Union Ministers on a number of occasions regarding implementation of Central
welfare schemes.