71st state level Independence Day function

Addressing the huge gathering on the 71st state level Independence Day function at Sawai Mansingh Stadium Chief Minister Smt. Vasundhara Raje has said Team Rajasthan is working tirelessly to eradicate economic-social inequality and discrimination in the state. She said true independence was when every child got compulsory education, every person had access to free healthcare, every deprived person got justice and youth had employment opportunities.

Smt. Raje extended her greetings to the people of the state on this occasion. She paid her tribute to the freedom fighters and martyrs.

The Chief Minister said we were heading towards a new Rajasthan which was prosperous, self-respecting, corruption and casteism free and free from feticide, illiteracy and poverty as well.

“We have to make a Rajasthan which is young and modern, a Rajasthan which we envisaged in our vision document presented before the public on 13 December, 2013”, she said.

Smt. Raje said the programmes and schemes of the state government were being admired not only within the country, but across the world. The first time ever a Festival of Education was organised in the state which aimed at quality improvement in education. With significant improvement visible in the exam results of government schools, our efforts in education sector had started yielding positive outcomes, she said.

The Chief Minister called upon the youth to make efforts with positive thinking, dedication and diligence so that the state retained its number one position. She said that our effort for generating employment opportunities had been successful and around 11 lakh people have been provided employment opportunities in private sector through skill development training.

Smt. Raje said that Rajasthan today was asserting its identity as a digital state. Digi-fest were being organised in various cities of the state and the first such festival would be held at Kota on August 17-18. To connect agriculture and industry we organised GRAM in Jaipur. After that ‘GRAM’ was being held at divisional level and the first divisional level GRAM was organised in Kota, she said.

The Chief Minister said that the state government re-negotiated the terms and conditions for setting up Refinery-cum-Petrochemical Complex in the state which saved Rs. 40,000 crores. She said that the state government aimed at solving the grievances of people to earn their prayers, blessings and affinity which would give us strength to work with double efforts.

The CM said that Rajasthan was working fast on the path shown to us by Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay. This learned man taught us that the ideas of self-governance and freedom were incomplete without dedicated ‘self’. He talked about importance of economic and social freedoms along with political freedom, she said. She added that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi was guiding a hard-working Team Rajasthan to realise this dream of economic and social freedom.

New Announcements

On this occasion of Independence Day, Smt. Raje made several important announcements. She dedicated a new telephone helpline for registration of public grievances and problems with sensitivity and ensure time bound redressal. This innovative Rajasthan Sampark Helpline would be made available by dialling ‘181‘ and it would take on complaints regarding road, power, water issuance of documents or certificates etc, she added.

The CM further announced a scheme to disburse low-interest loans worth Rs. 200 crore to women associated with cooperative committees. About 3.5 lakh women would be benefitted by this. Also, special bonus was announced for women milk-producer cooperatives. To promote farmers for storage of their crop produces in cooperative godowns, she announced for a loan scheme with 2 percent interest rate.

Smt. Raje said that the farmers having long overdue loans to the land development banks would be given one-time 50% relaxation on interest amount. Also, the time limit for applying for an agricultural electricity connection on the land owned by a martyer’s family was annulled. She also declared to construct 96 warehouses having a storage capacity of 100 metric tonnes for village cooperatives under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana.

The CM also scaled up the implementation of Annapurna Rasoi Yojana, a scheme for supply of cooked food at minimum rates, to all urban localities in the state. She further said that in the third phase of Gramim Gaurav Path Scheme, construction of about 2,000 cement concrete roads or missing links would be started from November 2017 onwards spending Rs 1200 crores. During next financial year another Rs. 1500 crore would be spent under this scheme, she added.

Jaipur, 15 August 2017