The State Government is all set for Independence Day celebrations to be held across Chhattisgarh on Thursday August 15.
The celebrations would be held in 27 district headquarters, 146 block headquarters, 9,734 gram panchayats and 168 civic bodies in the State. In Raipur, Chief Minister Raman Singh would hoist the Tri-colour at the Police Parade ground at 9 am and take the Independence Day salute, an official statement issued here on Wednesday stated.
later, the Chief Minister would deliver his message to the people of the State. Elsewhere in the State, Chhattisgarh Assembly Speaker Dharamlal Kaushik would hoist the Tricolour in the Bilaspur district headquarters and the Deputy Speaker Narayan Chandel would hoist the Tricolour at Janjgir.
Agriculture Minister Chandrashekhar Sahu would hoist the Tricolour at Mahasamund district headquarters while PWD Minister Brijmohan Agrawal would hoist the Tricolour at the Dhamtari district headquarters.
The list of other Cabinet ministers to hoist the Tricolur in various district headquarters is as follows—Home Minister Nanki Ram Kanwar (Korba), Water Resources Minister Ramvichar Netam (Ambikapur), Food and Civil Supplies Minister Punnulal Mohle (Mungeli), Public Health and Family Welfare Minister Amar Agrawal (Raigarh), Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Hemchand Yadav (Durg), Forest Minister Vikram Usendi , North Bastar (Kanker), Commerce and Industry Minister Rajesh Munat (Rajnandgaon), Tribal and Scheduled Caste Development Department Kedar Kashyap (Jagdalpur), Women and Child Development Department Minister lata Usendi (Kondagaon) and Revenue Minister Dayaldas Baghel (Bemetara).
The parliamentary secretaries would hoist the Tricolour at nine district headquarters and the same would be done by the Vice Chairmen of different Authority in three other district headquarters. At the Raipur Development Authority (RDA) headqurters, the Tricolour would be hoisted jointly by Chairman Sunil Kumar Soni, Vice Chairman Ratanlal Daga and Prafulla Vishwakarma at 8 am.