The Chhattisgarh government will focus more on promoting setting up of industrial units requiring small capital while also encouraging establishment of Agri and forest produce based processing units in the State, Governor Anandiben Patel said in her address to the first session of fifth Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly here on Monday.
She said that the Government will amend State Industrial Policy to boost employment of locals while providing them resources for skill based training.
The Governor said that the Government will make efforts towards linking more youth with skills required in Electronics and Information Technology sector to make them economically self reliant.
She said that within 10 days of the formation of the Government the farm loans totalling Rs 6,100 crore of 16.65 lakh farmers were waived in the first Cabinet meeting held on December 17, 2018.
The Governor said that the short-term loans of farmers from Co-operative and Chhattisgarh State rural banks were waived till November 30, 2018.
During the first Cabinet meeting, Minimum Support Price for paddy was endorsed at Rs 2,500 per quintal, she said.
The SIT was formed for probing the Jheeram valley massacre in 2013 in the first Cabinet meeting, the Governor said.
The Government also decided to return 1700 hectors of land acquired for Tata Steel by the previous regime in 10 villages of Bastar, she said.
The Government has also exempted registration of land of less than five dicimil to provide relief to middle and small income families, she said.
The Governor said that the Government will take stern action against economic offenders and those directors of chit fund companies cheating investors and will also work towards getting the money of investors returned by the offenders.
The Government will also talk to the victims of Maoist violence to restore peace in the insurgency-infested regions, she said.