An amount of Rs 10 crore will be allocated to the Forest Department for construction of an airstrip at district headquarters Bijapur in Bastar division of Chhattisgarh.
This was informed in a meeting of the Chhattisgarh Scheduled Tribes Advisory Council presided over by Chief Minister Raman Singh here.
Tribal Development Minister Kedar Kashyap along with a team of officials will also be visiting New Delhi soon to sort out the issue of denial of Scheduled Tribe certificates to the candidates over minor spelling mistakes.
Singh directed the officials to issue Caste Certificates to all the Eighth Standard students during the lok Suraaj Campaign 2017.
The Chief Minister said that if any student of Standard First to Standard-XII dies due to any reason, his family will be given financial assistance of Rs 1 lakh as compensation.
The decision is applicable to students of all schools irrespective of caste and creed.
He called upon the Revenue Department officials to complete the survey of rest of the 831 habitats with the assistance of I.I.T. Roorkee and other agencies within one year.
Singh called upon the officials to prepare proposals for Central grants for the Education Cities at Dantewada, Sukma, Bijapur and Korba.
New system had been put in place for the Tribal Hostels and Ashram schools.
The Chief Minister directed the officials to allocate houses to the dependents of the Maoist violence affected families at the Development headquarters -based panchayats.
It may be recalled that as many as 86 youth hailing from the five insurgency-infested districts of Chhattisgarh have been employed in plastic industry in various parts of the country last year, officials informed.
The youth had been trained at the Raipur-based Central Plastic Engineering and Technology Institute (CIPET).
It may be mentioned here that the youth are provided employment-oriented courses and training in technical assistance services in the plastic industry. The Institute is based at Banpuri near Raipur.
The academic session had begun in the year 2015-16 and the youth from Bastar, Bijapur, Sukma and Surguja and Jashpur districts had been upgraded in the skills of their choice. Eighty-six youth had been provided employment in Bangalore and Pune.
Notably, Chief Minister Raman Singh on January 26 had also performed bhoomi pujan for construction of terminal building and for taking up expansion works for Jagdalpur airport in Bastar.
The Chief Minister while addressing gathering said that with the construction of terminal building, flights would be started soon which will surely benefit the people of Bastar division.
The State government has inked Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Air India for launching flights whereas the monetary loss to the airline if any would be borne by the State government as per the MoU, Singh further said.
However, he expressed hope that there would be no loss for providing air services as most of the people want to travel by air from Jagdalpur.