Now, the aged pilgrims of Chhattisgarh will have the privilege of visiting famous Bouddh pilgrimages of Sarnath, Bodhgaya and Nalanda, under the Mukhyamantri Teerth Yatra Yojana.
A decision to add these places in the list of pilgrimages has been taken at a meeting held under the presidentship of CM, here on Monday. According to the plan, so far, 16 route charts had been decided and by adding Sarnath, Bodhgaya and Nalanda, the number of route charts prescribed for the pilgrims would be 17.
Raman has instructed to send all those who are interested to visit pilgrimages under the scheme. As the pilgrims are aged, they should be given better care during the journey, he added. He also instructed to deploy at least two care-takers in each bogie.
At the meeting, it was informed to the CM that so far more than 37,000 aged people were taken to different pilgrimages. The chief minister said that before embarking on pilgrimage, health check-up of every pilgrim should be done compulsorily. It should be kept in mind that seriously ill people should not be included in the trip, he added.
He said that after each visit the in-charge officer should submit report of the trip to the senior officer and the senior officer, after review of all the problems that came in the way, should remove such problems in the next journey.
The CM has also instructed to start the Mukhyamantri Bharat Darshan Yojana by August 15 next. He said that as many as youths should be sent for Bharat Darshan.
Woman and child development minister lata Usendi, school education minister Brijmohan Agrawal, additional chief secretary DS Mishra, secretary to chief minister N Baijendra Kumar, principal secretary, home, NK Aswal, principal secretary, health, MK Raut, principal secretary sports and youth welfare RP Mandal, DRM Purnendra Singh and other senior officers were present at the meeting.