Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Saturday reaffirmed that by 2020-21 each household of the State will get pure drinking water.
While laying foundation stones and inaugurating several schemes under distrcit mining funds in Ramgarh district on Saturday, the Chief Minister said that under the distrcit mining funds water supply schemes for rural areas were being started to provide pied drinking water to the rural populace.
The Chief Minister said the piped drinking water schemes have been started in Ramgarh, Bokaro and Chaibasa. He also greeted the people of Ramgarh for the distrcit being declared the first ODF district in the State. Das, on the occasion, appealed to people to save and conserve water. He also asked them to conserve water in the agricultural farms so that it can be properly isued.
Das said that the government was spending Rs 700 crore for skill development of youths and giving them professional degrees. More than 30,000 youths were being trained and government is planning to give appointment letters to 50,000 youths within next six months.
The CM also said that for small issues communal disturbance should not take place. He asked people to inform the government about wrongdoers and not take the law in their hands. Government will punish the wrongdoers, he said assuring that action would be taken on the cpomplaints.
Earlier, CM went to Chhinnamastika Temple and performed Puja there. In a programme organised at Chhitarpur in Ramgarh, CM inagurated and laid foundation of 139 schemes worth Rs 112952.497 lakh.
As many as 33 persons were given Pattas under Forest Rights Act and self help groups were also given assets and grants. Water Resources Minister CP Chaudhary, Principal Secretary of the department AP Singh, DC of Ramgarh B Rajeshwari, MlA Jaiprakash Bhai Patel, Commissioner Vandana Dadel, DIG Bhimsen Tuti, SP Kaushal Kishor and several other eminent persons were present on the occasion.