Preparations for a much-hyped State-wide lok Suraaj Abhiyan will begin from April 13 under which Chief Minister Raman Singh will conduct surprise visit to any of the villages or cities in State to interact with common people there and to address their grievances. Singh will strive to ensure on the spot redressal of public grievances. He will conduct sudden inspection of any of the Government school, hospital, hostel, tehsil office etc to check execution of official works there.
Besides Chief Minister, State Government’s Ministers, Chief Secretary and other senior officials will also visit villages and cities during lok Suraaj Abhiyan which will conclude on May 12. In every district, special camps for farmers, unorganised labourers, women and youth, based on public welfare schemes, will be organised during lok Suraaj Abhiyaan.
Meanwhile, the series of Gram Sabha in nearly 20 thousand villages of around 10,967 Gram Panchayats in the State will commence from April 14 i.e. on birth anniversary of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, the architect of Indian Constitution. In these Gram Sabhas, Panch-Sarpanchs, Panchayat secretaries and village-level employees will inform people about various Government schemes and will also chalk out action plan for development of villages.
To review the preparations of lok Suraaj Abhiyan, In-charge Secretaries have already started visiting their respective districts. In the same sequence, RP Jain, Commissioner Bastar Division, convened a meeting of officials concerned at conference hall of Collectorate in Jagdalpur to review the preparations for the month-long event. In the meeting, he instructed officials to complete preparations at war footing, in the wake of Chief Minister’s expected inspection visit to Bastar. Commissioner informed that Chief Minister may pay sudden visit to any of the village in Bastar district, and commence lok Suraaj Abhiyan.
In all five development blocks of Mahasamund district, preparations for lok Suraaj Abhiyaan are underway at war footing. Under this event, total 153 camps including 32 special camps, 25 camps for youth regarding skill development schemes, and 30 camps of Women and Child Development Department will be organised in the district. Collector Umesh Agrawal has already made all arrangements for these camps, after presiding over meeting of officials concerned. Incharge- Secretary of the district Nidhi Chhibbar reviewed the preparations for lok Suraaj Abhiyaan in a meeting held at District Headquarters Mahasamund.
In Balrampur-Ramanujganj district, labour Department will be organising around 36 special registration camps for labourers of unorganised sector so as to benefit them under various schemes. In Bemetara district also, registration camps will be organised at 11 places. During lok Suraaj Abhiyaan, registration camps for unorganised labourers will be organised at 28 places in Dhamtari district and at 12 places in Durg district.