Investment worth Rs 47000 crore expected with new industrial policy: CM

Central Chronicle News
Raipur, Jul 11: Chief Minister Baghel said that as a result of the new industrial policy of State Government, investment of Rs.47000 cr is expected in the state, which will provide direct employment to more than 67 thousand people and benefit a large number of people indirectly. We have started establishing food parks in every development block. Infrastructure development for food park has already been started in Sukma. In Durg district, we are setting up a large unit for processing forest produce at a cost of 78 crore. We have collaborated with private companies to establish a dozen other such units at different places. To provide direct benefits to tribals and forest dependent families, we have increased the number of forest produce procured on support price from 7 to 52. We have increased the wages and support price of 17 forest produce, due to which more than 13 lakh tribals and forest dependent families are receiving Rs 502 crore every year. Under ‘Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana’, nearly Rs 5700 crore is being paid to the farmers as input aid every year.
By the year 2023, every house in rural areas of the state will have tap connection for clean drinking water supply
Chief Minister Mr. Baghel said that before December 17, 2018, 43 irrigation projects worth nearly Rs 18 thousand crore were left incomplete. But in just two years, we have completed 138 of these projects, while the work on 405 such projects is in progress. We have also sanctioned 429 new projects worth Rs 1657 crores, after 17th December 2018. In this way, in just two and a half years, we have completed 150 irrigation projects including new and old and have started the work on 822 schemes, which is targeted to be completed in stipulated time. As far as drinking water supply is concerned, we have started a major campaign through ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’, under which pure water will be supplied through tap connection to all the 39 lakh rural households of the state, by the year 2023. Earlier, the target was to supply 40 liters of pure drinking water per person per day, which has now been increased to 55 liters per person per day. In the current financial year, budget of Rs 850 crore has been allocated for this scheme. Mr. Baghel said that Government of India has set a deadline to provide pure water through taps to all rural households under the Jal-Jeevan Mission by year 2024. But we in Chhattisgarh want to complete this work one year before so that it saves the time and labor of people in rural homes early, so that they can pay more attention in work like education, health, employment, said Chief Minister Mr. Baghel in Lokvaani.
Enhancing the quality of education with Swami Atmanand English Medium School Scheme
Chief Minister Mr. Baghel said that as soon as our Government took the charge, we kept our promise and merged 26 thousand shikshakarmis, providing them all the facilities like regular pay scale, promotion, transfer. Till now, recruitment of 2 thousand 800 lecturers has been completed in the state. The process of selection for teachers and assistant teachers has been completed for more than 10 thousand posts. Scholarship and food assistance to children belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has been increased.
For the first time in the country, under the Right to Education Act, children are being provided free education up to class 12th. Arrangements have been made for free education for girls up to graduation and post-graduation. Swami Atmanand English Medium School Scheme has been started to enhance the quality of education in the state.
As a result of the elaborate arrangements made by State Government for providing employment to people of different classes and educational levels, the unemployment rate in the state has come down from 22 percent to 3 percent in two and a half years.
In the programme Lokvaani, Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel answered the questions of Chandni Rajwade from Barkhapali in Surajpur district, Mr. Aman Lahare from Mongrapal in Bastar district, Mr. Krishna Kumar Sahu from Madanpur-Kawardha, Mr. Devram from Raigarh district, Mr. Brijmohan Agrawal from Raipur, Sarpanch Sarora Shri Bihari Ram Verma from Raipur, Shimla Meravi from village Katgo, Raipur, Apurva Sharma from Raipur and thanked them for their suggestions.

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