Chief Minister Raman Singh on Thursday landed at Gram Panchayat headquarters named Mero of Khadgawa development block in the district .
He later also toured Bhainsamunda village of Kartala development block and participated in a 'Grievance Redressal Camp' there.
Singh later interacted with school children in the village. The parents of the school children were also very excited on seeing the Chief Minister amongst them.
He also visited the school at Mero village.
It may be mentioned here that the Chief Minister as a part of 'lok Suraj' mission is personally observing the quality of education at various schools.
The Chief Minister conversed with the children and asked them mathematics tables and made them do some calculations.
Singh questioned first standard student Vikas regarding the mathematics table of 16. When the student recited the table faultlessly, Singh congratulated the boy and gifted him his personal pen.
Meanwhile , girl students Ramwati, Sonkunwar, leelavati, Rajkumari and other students expressed their gratitude to the Chief Minister on him allocating them bicycles free of cost as a apart of Saraswati Cycle project.
Singh wished the students a bright future. It may be recalled that around 1.82 lakh girl students had received bicycles free of cost during the past 14 years. This had led to presence of girl students increasing manifolds in schools.
The Chief Minister sanctioned Rs six lakh for the construction of a primary school building , Rs Two lakh for purchase of furniture and sanctioned a culvert on Tipkapani canal on the occasion.
Singh directed the officials to issue a caste certificate to the daughter of Jairam, Sunita, who migrated from the neighbouring Korba district about two generations ago.
The Chief Minister also reviewed the various developmental activities with senior district officials.
Singh sanctioned funds for the construction of 106 houses for the poor out of which 91 houses had already been built under the Prime Minister Housing Project.
He instructed the officials to complete the remaining houses also in a time-bound manner.
The Chief Minister also called upon the officials to complete the sinking of 19 wells sanctioned under the MGNREGA in the panchayat.
Singh said that electricity connections will be provided to all the hamlets soon. The State Government is keen on illuminating all the houses in the state.
He called upon the power company officials to meet the targets as soon as possible.
Chief Secretary Ajay Singh also accompanied the Chief Minister on the tour.