Chandigarh, May 13: Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal, while interacting with the people during the Jan Samvad programme at Sirsa’s Khairekan village, said that the panchayats should get the village ponds cleaned and use the slit coming out of it as manure in the fields. He said that there are 18,000 ponds in the villages of the state and the panchayats can get these ponds cleaned at their own level.
The Chief Minister said that the aim of holding Jan Samvad programmes is to interact with the people about their grievances and ensure that the benefits of various policies and schemes implemented by the state government are reaching the general public.
Project related to water works in Khairekan village will be expedited and completed soon
The Chief Minister said that the project of water works at Khairekan village at a cost of Rs.2.25 crore will be expedited and completed soon. Apart from this, remodeling work has been done on Abudgarh distributary and Sukhchain distributary for irrigation in the village fields, due to which adequate irrigation facilities are being made available to the farmers.
Stressing upon the depleting groundwater level of Khairekan village, the Chief Minister appealed the farmers to save water by adopting micro-irrigation project. Farmers can also recharge water through their borewells during the rainy season, he added.
Meanwhile, on the shortage of teachers, the Chief Minister said that it will be fulfilled in the next three months. On the demand of upgrading the Government High School of Khairekan village to Government Senior Secondary School, he said that this school would be upgraded after increase in the number of students in Classes 9th and 10th.
24 hours power supply being given in the village
Sh. Manohar Lal said that electricity is being supplied 24 hours in the village. He said that out of 6200 villages in the state, 24-hour power supply is being provided in 5600 villages. He said that sufficient amount of electricity is being supplied to the farmers and in villages where electricity is not being supplied as per the schedule; it will be resolved.
171 people of Khairekan village availed benefits of Ayushman Yojana
Describing Ayushman Yojana as a boon and effective for the poor, the Chief Minister said that under this scheme, 171 people of Khairekan village have availed benefits by getting their treatment done of worth Rs 24.40 lakh; free of cost.
He said that ration cards have been linked with the Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) and the families who have not yet got their PPP made; should get it done at the earliest. Earlier there were 340 ration cards in Khairekan village and now under the new system, 628 ration card holders are getting the benefits of the government schemes, he added.
The Chief Minister said that poor families have been identified under the Mukhyamantri Antyodaya Parivar Utthan Yojana. “In order to give benefits of schemes to these families and to improve their standard of living, camps are being organized by the state government at the block level,” he added.
He said that the government has given priority to merit instead of giving jobs on the basis of ‘parchi-kharchi’. In the last eight-and-a-half years, about 8,500 government jobs have been given in Sirsa district. In Khairekan village, 59 people have got government jobs, out of which 20 are in central government and 39 are in state government.
The Chief Minister also interacted with sarpanches of nearby villages and assured to resolve their problems. He instructed the Public Health Department to prepare a proposal within 10 days to set up a canal-based water house to be built on four acres in Saharani village at a cost of Rs 4 crore; to make arrangements for clean drinking water.
On the occasion, Sirsa MP, Smt. Sunita Duggal, OSD to Chief Minister, Sh. Jawahar Yadav, former MLA, S. Balkaur Singh, Deputy Commissioner, Sh. Parth Gupta, Superintendent of Police, Sh. Udai Singh Meena, sarpanch Suman Kumar, among others were present.