RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Tuesday, January 6 reiterated that the state government is committed to ensure holistic development of Bastar region.
“Ensuring holistic development of Bastar region is the top priority of the government and the state is continuously working towards providing basic facilities like roads, electricity, education and drinking water to every village of Bastar,” said CM Sai.
The Chief Minister made these remarks while interacting with a delegation of 100 public representatives of remote Gram Panchayats of Sukma district who have arrived on a two-day educational tour of Raipur under the ‘Hamar Chhattisgarh Jan Bhraman’ Yojna (scheme).
Interacting with the representatives, the CM stated that the state government is carrying out development work with rapid pace in Bastar. He added that security camps are being erected in remote regions which are ensuring both security and rapid pace to the development work.
The CM underscored, that government ration shops have been opened across most of the villages in the region and the benefits of welfare schemes are effectively reaching common citizens, adding that Bastar will be completely Naxal-free in near future.
CM Sai said, that the state government is making all efforts towards a self-reliant Bastar and providing opportunity to public representatives to visit the capital city is being done with the same objective, so that they can be motivated by witnessing development work here, and carry forward the same in their respective areas.
It must be noted, that the state government has paced up development works in remote regions of Bastar division, previously marred by red terror.
The government has launched various schemes such as Niyad Nellanar, aimed at providing benefits of welfare schemes to the residents and ‘Elvad Panchayat’ under which development works worth a crore are sanctioned immediately to the panchayats declaring itself free from Maoist activities.
State’s Bastar division has witnessed a swift transformation in recent few years with decades-long Naxal-insurgency abating from the region and administration stepping in with various development initiatives aimed at connecting remote villages to the mainstream of development.
