On the last day of the Winter Session of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly, Chief Minister Hemant Soren addressed the House targeting the Opposition BJP. Soren, without naming BJP, said that people with ‘Manuwadi’ mentality have ruined the State as these people have looted the State's rich mineral resources. “Due to these people (of Manuwadi mentality) there has been religious unrest in the name of Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians since 2014. Our government is working hard in creating a peaceful environment in the State.” The CM further said that in this connection, the State Assembly recently passed the law against mob lynching.
The CM also stated that despite the State having rich mineral resources, Jharkhand is a backward State. There is backwardness, malnutrition and unemployment in this state despite having 42 per cent minerals of the country.
Soren further said that the reason behind people’s plight is lack of education. The State in 20 years has seen several governments such as double engine government, unstable government but none of these governments had worked for development of State. The Chief Minister also cited corona pandemic, which has brought unwanted trouble for the State. He said that there was trouble during the Corona period, but even after that, we have implemented 28 new schemes on the ground. The government has recently launched Apke Adhikar, Apki Sarkar Apke Dwar, programme under which officers are reaching to people with various welfare schemes at their doorstep.
He also said that the government will identify Jharkhand movement crusaders in a new way. The CM said that the government has decided to give them 5 per cent reservation in pension and government jobs. The CM said that there are many states in the country which are top in their language and culture. We too have decided to open Tribal University to keep our State's language and culture intact.
The Government of India undertaking is extracting the mineral resources from the State, but the State is not getting its share from the extraction of mineral resources.
The Winter Session of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly ended on Wednesday. In this session which lasted for 5 days, a total of 293 questions including 105 short notice questions, 152 starred questions and 36 unstarred questions were approved. In these, 251 questions were answered. Apart from this, 20 departments of the government answered 100 percent online questions. The last day was conducted peacefully, on the last day many decisions were taken in the interest of the state. During this three bills were also passed from the assembly. Tribal Universities Bill-2021, Jharkhand Electricity Fee (Amendment) Bill-2021 and Court Fee (Jharkhand Amendment Bill) 2021 were passed by voice vote.
MLA Vinod Singh opposed the Jharkhand Court Fee Bill. On this, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Alamgir Alam said that since the formation of Jharkhand, the court fee has not increased even once.
In the meeting of the Tribal Advisory Council (TAC) held a few months ago, many big decisions were taken regarding the tribals. In this, the decision to open a tribal university is also one. Pandit Raghunath Murmu Tribal University will be the first tribal university in eastern India. It is planned to be constructed between Galudih and Ghatshila in Jamshedpur. For this, 20 acres of land has also been identified.