Chief Minister Raman Singh inaugurated various construction works worth nearly Rs 900 crores during the Vikas Yatra programmes organized in various parts of Raipur district including Mana, Boriyakala and Mana Camp.
Vikas Yatra in Raipur district started from Aarang. a Housing Colony at Boriyakala inaugurated during Vikas Yatra. CM Singh said Chhattisgarh Government introduced the first food security act of the country to ensure monthly supply of 35 kg rice and 2 kg salt to each of the 42 lakh poor families of State.
At last, the Vikas Yatra procession led by Chief Minister reached Mana Camp at intervening night of Monday and Tuesday and during the programme organised there, Dr Singh inaugurated and laid foundation of various development and construction worth Rs 15 crores. This includes bhumi-pujan of hospital building. All the way during Vikas Yatra, Chief Minister Dr Singh was accorded warm welcome by the public at various places. Overjoyed with the employee-oriented decisions of State Government, crowd of Shikshakarmis, Government employees and Kotwars expressed their gratitude by weighing Dr Singh with heaps of laddoos. Moreover, thousands of farmers also welcomed Chief Minister in public gatherings with their traditional dance performances and thanked him for the announcement of bonus distribution on paddy procurement at support price every year.
Chief Minister addressed the public gathering at Mana around 12 at midnight, but despite the odd hours of night, thousands of people enthusiastically gathered at the venue to listen their Chief Minister speak.
In his address to public, Dr Singh threw light upon the public welfare policies and schemes of State Government. Talking about the rising inflation in country, Chief Minister Dr Singh said that it is the ineffectiveness of the Centre's economic policies that is causing the sharp increase in inflation at national-level. Even the basic requirement of common people's daily food habit i.e. onions is disappearing from the market, and its price is soaring high. He added that nowadays, even the sisters insist their brothers to gift them a few kilograms of onions as gift on the occasion of Rakshabandhan.
On the other side, Chhattisgarh Government has taken several result-oriented initiatives to relieve its people of the increasing financial burden due to inflation. Chhattisgarh Government introduced the first food security act of the country to ensure monthly supply of 35 kg rice and 2 kg salt to each of the 42 lakh poor families of State. In tribal areas, beneficiaries are provided 2 kg grams at nominal rate of Rs 5 per kg and in non-tribal areas, they are provided 2 kg of pulses at the rate of Rs 10 per kg only.
To bring some respite to the farmers of Chhattisgarh from growing input cost of cultivation, State Government provides the facility of short-term agricultural loans to the farmers at nominal interest rate of 1 per cent. During Vikas Yatra Programmes Chief Minister inaugurated 58 completed construction works worth nearly Rs 662.58 crores and laid foundation of 36 new construction projects worth nearly Rs 232 crores. Inauguration and foundation laying of as many as 11 construction and development projects worth Rs 418.57 crores was done in Navapara. In Abhanpur, State's first organic fertilizer factory was inaugurated. This factory has been constructed by Chhattisgarh State Seed and Agricultural Development Corporation at the cost of Rs 2 crores.
During Vikas Yatra to Raipur district, Chief Minister inaugurated and laid foundation of various residential colonies constructed/to be constructed by Chhattisgarh Housing Board . This includes the construction of huge residential colony in Boriyakala near capital city Raipur, comprising about 3301 houses, at the cost of about Rs 275 crores. Chief Minister inaugurated and laid foundation of construction and development projects worth Rs 106.26 crores in Aarang, Rs 458.57 crores in Navapara, Rs 78.64 crores in Abhanpur and of Rs 15 crores in Mana Camp.
Besides, under various beneficiary oriented schemes of State Government, goods and materials were distributed to a large number of beneficiaries. This includes distribution of irrigation pumps and advanced agricultural equipments to farmers, free bicycles and sewing machines for female labourers, tool-kits for male labourers engaged in construction works, ration cards to new beneficiaries under food security act, bonus cheques for tendupatta collectors etc.