‘To have a house is everyone’s right, govt will ensure it’
Chouhan also pledges financial assistance to students from weaker sections
BHOPAL: Various programmes including blood donation, sanitation workers’ felicitation, distribution of equipment to disabled and others were held to mark CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s birthday on Sunday. The CM also distributed equipment to disabled people (divyangs) in a camp organised by MLA Rameshwar Sharma at Yuva Sadan, Malviya Nagar. The CM worshiped cow at his CM House.
Vidhan Sabha Speaker Sitasaran Sharma, ministers, chief secretary BP Singh, DGP Rishi Shukla and others visited CM House to greet Chauhan. The CM also visited Vidisha to offer obeisance at Ganesh Mandir on this occasion.
While felicitating sanitation workers of Valmiki and Sudershan Samaj at Subhash School ground, Chouhan said the government would table a bill in current Vidhan Sabha session ensuring land to landless people in the state.
At the event organised by BMC, he said, “This bill will ensure the land for house to landless people and people of weaker sections of the state. In urban areas, due to scarcity of land, we will ensure a well furnished flat each to the families of weaker sections. To have house is right of every one and the government will ensure it.”
Second, the government would also constitute a ‘Kamgar –Vitta Ayog’ (sanitation finance commission) as Valmiki Samaj and Sundershan Samaj had demanded, the CM said.
He said, “The government has left no stone unturned for education of children of Valmiki and Sudershan Samaj and other weaker sections. To pursue engineering, medical and other professional courses is a costly affair, so the government would fund them. The government will even ensure financial support if students of weaker sections go to foreign universities.”
Mayor Alok Sharma said it was a matter of pleasure for him to felicitate sanitation workers who worked for cleanliness of the city.
Vijaya Shrivastav
The park of the colony is very beautiful. Earlier, people came for morning walk here and brought along with them rubbish packed in polythene bags which they threw just outside the park. So we started with cleaning the area which had turned into a dustbin and planted trees there. Then we started keeping a watch, two of us at a time, on who was throwing garbage there. Now, every evening and morning two women take a walk there and if they see anyone throwing garbage outside the park they take the garbage from them and throw it in the dustbin placed nearby. In this way, those who used to regularly throw garbage there have now stopped doing it but we haven’t been able to stop it completely, so we are still on duty.”
Neeta Nagvans
Our work has started showing positive results. Since we are very small in number and also we cannot give time every day, we have appointed two labourers. Whosoever gets time, along with the labourers, cleans the area. It is to be understood by everyone that just like our home we should keep our surroundings clean because most of the diseases come from outside and not from inside the house.
Kavita Naidu
When we started asking people not to throw garbage anywhere, they questioned us where to throw it then. So we asked the BMC ward office to get dustbins for the colony. With the dustbins in place, we again started the drive. We took away the garbage from people who came to throw it at the spot. This way slowly people started using the dustbins instead of throwing it just anywhere.
