Chandigarh, May 3: Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal, while interacting with the people during the Jan Samvad programme at Kurukshetra’s Barna village, said that the sarpanches must hold meetings of the Gram Sabha once in three months. “The development works whose proposals will be passed and sent by the Gram Panchayats; will be completed under any circumstances,” he said.
Meanwhile, on the demand of the sarpanches, the Chief Minister directed the Deputy Commissioner to renovate the Village Secretariat of Barna village.
Sh. Manohar Lal said that Jan Samvad programme is the best medium to take feedback from the public; to inquire whether the benefits of the policies and schemes of the government are delivered on ground efficiently. He said that the state government has brought many radical changes in the system by implementing various public welfare schemes.
Amount of Rs 2.56 crore given for development works in Barna village
The Chief Minister said that Rs 2.56 crore was given for development works in Barna village, under which roads, various chaupals, construction of Ambedkar Bhawan and other development works have been done. He said that now jobs are being given on the basis of merit in the state. In Barna village, 125 government jobs have been given, out of which 52 jobs are of the central and state government; while 73 jobs are from Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam.
He said that in the three Antyodaya Utthan Melas organized in Kurukshetra district in the past, loans have been provided to more than 2,500 people of the families whose annual income was less than Rs 1.80 lakh, for self-employment.
Now money being directly sent to the accounts of farmers
Sh. Manohar Lal said that today the subsidy for crops is being sent directly to the accounts of the farmers and they no longer have to make rounds of the middlemen. “This is the reason why people are trusting the government. The state government has motivated the farmers to give up paddy crop and the farmers are being given incentive at the rate of Rs 7,000 per acre for sowing other less water-intensive crops in place of paddy. As a result, 20 farmers of the village have availed benefit of this scheme,” he added.
678 people availed benefit of Ayushman Yojana in Barna village
The Chief Minister said that under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana, 3,382 Ayushman cards have been made in Barna village, out of which 678 people have availed benefits. For this, Rs 94.73 lakh have been provided by the government to the hospitals. During the programme, the Chief Minister also interacted with sarpanches of nearby villages and assured to fulfil their demands related to sewerage, health, buses, drainage, water, ponds, girls' schools etc.
Thanesar MLA, Sh. Subhash Sudha welcomed the Chief Minister in the programme and apprised the public with details of the development works done by the government in the last eight and a half years. OSD to Chief Minister, Sh. Jawahar Yadav and other dignitaries were present on the occasion.