RAJASTHAN

Slogan in People’s interest

JAIPUR : Under the leadership of Block Congress Committee president Raj Kumar Sharma and state Congress Committee member Abhinesh Maharshi, Chief Minister Shri Ashok Gehlot, on 15 April, 2002, released "Pani Bachao, Bijli Bachao, Sabko Padhao" sticker.

Addressing party workers, the Chief Minister praised the efforts made by Hasanpura Block Congress Committee and advised that the message of "Pani Bachao, Bijli Bachao, Sabko Padhao" should be sent from house to house in villages and towns and the people should be made to understand the meaning of the message. On this occasion, the office-bearers of Hasanpura Block Congress Committee, senior citizens, the officers of development committees and social services organisations and workers were present.

 

A Successful Campaign

JAIPUR : Jaipur district’s Govindgarh Block Congress Committee president, Shri Shankar Lal Chaturvedi expressed happiness that Rajashtan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s campaign of taking administration to villages has successfully completed three years. The government has provided the people with a sensitive and transparent governance.

Under the ‘administration towards the villages’ and the ‘administration towards the towns’ campaign several people’s problems were solved on the spot. In these camps the people took benefit of the solutions related to revenue, residence certificate, widow pension, handicapped pension, old age pension, Chief Minister Life Safety Fund assistance, maternity assistance and bank loan schemes. This year, the budget is primarily focussed on repairing the roads and constructing new roads.

 

Gehlot warns of serious threat to democracy

JAIPUR : The Rajasthan Chief Minister, Shri Ashok Gehlot on 4 April warned of serious threat to the democracy in the country from the communal and caste elements. "We are sitting on top of a volcano. No one, from the Prime Minister to the ward panch knows where we are heading for", he said in a speech after releasing the first State Human Development Report, prepared jointly by the Rajasthan Government, Union Planning Commission and the UNDP.

"May be human development reports should carry the kind of index which indicate one’s faith in democracy, secularism and sense of equality", he said. "When people are killed in hundreds in our neighbourhood, when the continuing carnage in the name of religion shadow our mindscape, what development we can provide", Shri Gehlot said.

"If we don’t change our attitudes, if we do not try to become human beings first, the real well-being is bound to elude us’, Mr. Gehlot said. "Today the basics of democracy are relegated to the background. There is a need to strengthen secular forces and reject caste feelings", he said.

Mr. Gehlot mentioned the Mission approach taken up by the Government and the efforts to provide a transparent and responsive administration.

In the past, the political parties had social action in their agenda. The Congress under the Mahatma had even a provision that each party worker should undertake a certain work in the villages. Now soon after joining the party they ask for rewards, he pointed out.

The Chief Secretary, Inderjit Khanna, who listed the progress Rajasthan could make in the past decade mentioned the creation of Gandhi Grams modelled after Mahatma Gandhi’s villages in each of the panchayat samitis in the State.

Significant highlights of the report include marked improvement literacy from 38.6 percent in 1991 to 61 percent in 2001, a sustained high rate of poverty reduction making it possible for the State to achieve the Millennium Declaration Goal of having income poverty by 2015 and increase in sex ratio from 910 in 1991 to 922 in 2001. The period also sees the emergence of the voluntary sector as the third sector along side the Government and the private sector.

 

Sewa Dal Camp

ALWAR : A training camp of the Congress Sewa Dal was organised at the Company Bagh here from February 3 which was inaugurated by the District Congress president, Shri Juberkhan. On the occasion, Sewa Dal workers saluted the Congress flag and sang "Vande Mataram". Over 40 national trained teachers and 60 ‘Bal Sainiks’ participated. Bal Sewa Dal was also formed on the occasion.

The camp gave training in environment, disaster management and public safety. Ashok Sharma, Prem Lata Gupta, Amro Jajoria, Om Prakash Sain, Kuldeep Mathur, Roopnam Mahavar, Bhoop Singh, Yadav, Ganga Lehari, Dhansi Ram, Jogendra Singh, Basanti Berwa, Sunil Kumar were the trainers while Ashok Verma was the convenor of the camp.