The State Government has commenced administrative preparation for implementation of the points made in the new Government's poll manifesto.
Chief Secretary Ajay Singh on Thursday chaired a meeting to review preparations being made for the implementation of the new Government's manifesto in the Mantralaya here.
The Chief Secretary directed officials to prepare an action plan and carry out costing of the works. After the action plan is prepared, the proposals will be examined by the concerned department ministers, he said.
Singh said that for proper implementation of the projects, provision will be made in the forthcoming State Budget.
The officers of Agriculture Department, Forest Department, Panchayat and Rural Development Department, Mining Resources, Science and Technology, School Education, Women and Child Development, Health, Higher Education, Industry, Gramodyog, Scheduled Tribes and Schedule Castes Development, Water Resources, Urban Administration, Revenue, General Administration, Labour Department, Social Welfare, Commercial Taxes Department, Public Health Engineering, Law Department and several other functionaries were present in the meeting.
Notably, on October 16 this year in a press conference, now Cabinet Minister TS SInghdeo had stated “We will make promises with expenditure to be made on tasks in a separate column and a comprehensive manifesto would be prepared with an expected budget estimate of around Rs 80,000 crore keeping in view the budget of previous year while setting our priorities, he said.
The manifesto covers the issues of all sections of life whether be it farmers, labourers, government employees, Ad-Hoc employees, students, doctors, health workers, trade unions, vegetable and fruit vendors and we will try to fulfill the aspirations of all of them, he had stated.
Singhdeo had also later stated that on the lines of Barrack Obama’s Health Care Programme in United States, in Chhattisgarh too, Universal Health Care Programme would be conducted if Congress party comes to power .
Apart from that, Public Distribution System in Chhattisgarh would also be made universal and clause of being Below Poverty Line (BPL) would be removed from both of them, he had stated.
He had stated that the Congress party will take back the decision taken by Bharatiya Janata Party government on private sector participation in the fields of Education and Health.
The party will also take back the orders of privatization of Government Model Schools, Singhdeo had stated.
Singhdeo had also stated that Journalist Security Act would be enforced in State if Congress party comes to power after the elections.