Home, Jail and Cooperatives and district in-charge minister Nanki Ram Kanwar said that the State Government has continuously been working for the all-round development of common man, because of which an environment of prosperity and development has been developed in the State.
While addressing Vikas Yatra programmes organised at lundra, Sumerpur, Dhaurpur, Kundikala, Bargidih, Batauli and Sitapur, the minister said that because of the important schemes of the Government an upswing has come in the living standard of people and with the effective implementation of the schemes opportunities for job have been increased and exodus stopped.
Under the Rojgar guarantee scheme, now the labourers would get 150 days work in place 100 days, due to which guarantee of work would be increased and labourers would get additional financial security, the in-charge minister said. On the occasion Kanwar distributed paddy bonus worth Rs 6.93 lakh to the farmers and under the Food Security scheme, ration cards to the women heads of families. He has also given away tendupatta bonus, paddy seed, Ramtil seed minikits to the farmers.
In the public meetings, Kanwar said that commendable works in the field of education, health and employees had been done in the State under the leadership of Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh. Earlier, the farmers were getting loan at 16 per cent interest, and now they were being given loan at 1 per cent only, he added.
He said that the ration distribution system under the Food Security Scheme has become a matter of study, not only in the country, but in foreign countries also. The minister advised the villagers to save something from their hard work and to stay away from addiction.