Raipur, March 25, 2010
Home Minister Nankiram Kanwar on Thursday informed in the Vidhan Sabha that the security personnel shot dead about 90 naxals and destroyed a dozen camps in an ongoing anti-naxal operation in Bastar division till last month. Kanwar was replying to a question of BJP MLA Devjibhai Patel who had sought information from the minister regarding number of naxals killed in Operation Green Hunt including the figure of naxal camps destroyed by the security personnel.
Kanwar admitted in the House that earlier the security forces fighting with naxals had suffered heavy casualties in counterinsurgency operations without inflicting casualties on rebels.
Kanwar hailed Chief Minister Raman Singh for his bold decision to take on the extremists tooth and nail as it paid a rich dividend with close coordination among forces and authorities.
When the Patel wished to know about the number of jawans martyred during the Operation Green Hunt, Kanwar refused to provide the actual figure terming it insignificant and said the relatives of the martyred had been compensated.
Labourers did not migrate from Dantewada: Agrawal
Raipur, March 25, 2010
The state government on Thursday categorically denied the Opposition’s allegations about large-scale migration of labourers from the naxal-affected Dantewada district in south Bastar.
“There was no report of migration from Dantewada district to other states during 2009-10,” said Revenue, Health and Rehabilitation Minister Amar Agrawal told the Assembly in a written reply to Congress MLA from Konta Kawasi Lakhma.
Agrawal further said that 662 projects worth Rs 18 crore were under implementation across the district under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) at the panchayat-level.
Stating that there was no dearth of funds to provide work to the labourers under the scheme, Agrawal said in order to check the exodus of labourers from the district a massive awareness campaign was launched about NREGS through banners, posters, wall writings and distribution of pamphlets.
Expressing his surprise over Agrawal’s denial on migration of labourers, Lakhma informed the House that six blocks of then district were declared drought-hit owing to which there had been exodus of labourers from Dantewada district to the states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra as the government failed to provide jobs to them.
Lakhma further informed that the situation pertaining to employment opportunity for labourers was even worse in several areas, including Bonda, Gorapalli, Dupatota, Penta, Nilabara and Kanjipalli. He said not a single road construction work under the Prime Minister's Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) could be completed in the district during the last couple of years due to naxal violence and threat.
Cong stages walkout on pollution issue
Raipur, March 25, 2010
The Opposition Congress once again trapped the government in Vidhan Sabha on Thursday by raising the issue of increasing industrial pollution in the capital city. The Congress alleged that the Raipur had become the most polluted city owing to the government’s reluctance in taking action against the polluting industries. The issue was raised by BJP MLAs Devjibhai Patel, Ravishankar Tripathy and Congress MLA Dharmajeet Singh through a call attention notice.
The Congress MLAs even asked the Environment Minister Rajesh Munat to close all the industries when he asked from them to decide whether to allow the industries to continue or to shut down during his reply. The Opposition demanded from Munat to conduct public hearing in the polluted region on which the minister refused and said that already the government had formed committees headed by divisional commissioners to hold such meetings with public representatives to take suitable action against polluting industries. But dissatisfied by Munat’s reply, the Opposition walked out from the House.
The Congress MLAs as well as BJP legislators Devjibhai Patel, Ravishankar Tripathy said that the State Pollution Control Board had failed in taking action against the polluting industries including Ferro alloys, Sponge Iron and power plants established in the periphery of the city. They said the rising pollution has affected the health of the people as there had been a marked increase in the patients of cancer, kidney, liver and heart.
Rejecting the allegation, Munat informed the House that Raipur stood at 63rd position in the list of most polluted cities and his government had taken all possible measures while taking polluting industries into task with regular monitoring to check industrial pollution.
BJP MLA Devjibhai Patel said the polluting industries have severely affected the people of his constituency and informed the House that Dharsiva’s 200 people underwent heart operation with the help of Chief Minister. Pointing that even the groundwater had been polluted in his region, Patel asked from Munat whether he would close down all the polluting industries.
Munat clarified that the government had never protected the polluting industries. He informed that a majority of the industries in Urla, Bhanpuri and Siltara were established before 1977.
When Congress MLA Dharmjeet Singh asked Munat about the three most polluted cities in the state, the latter informed that Korba, Raipur and Durg are the main polluting cities followed by Raigarh.
Govt failed to spend over Rs 3500 crore: Choubey
Demands white paper on power purchased in past 6 yrs
Raipur, March 25, 2010
The Leader of the Opposition Ravindra Choubey has alleged that the government had failed to spend over Rs 3500 crore in various schemes. “Even the School Education Minister Brijmohan Agrawal has accepted that his department could not spend Rs 250 crore under Rajiv Gandhi Shiksha Mission (RGSM). Similarly, the government failed to spend Rs 1500 crore under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) owing to which the impoverished section of Raipur city did not get any facility,” he said. Choubey’s allegations came while he was speaking during the discussion on Appropriation Bill in the Vidhan Sabha on Thursday.
He further took a swipe at the ministers for giving different statements. “On one side, the Women and Child Development Minister Lata Usendi claims that one out of three missing girls From Dharamjaigarh (Raigarh district) has been found, while the Home Minister Nankiram Kanwar says that none of the three girls have been found so far in his written answer to the Congress MLA Haridas Bhardwaj’s question,” Choubey said.
He further demanded from the government to issue a white paper on power purchased by it worth Rs 10,000 crore in the past six years and alleged that the government’s claims of power surplus state was merely empty boastings.
Choubey further pointed out towards the alleged reports of purchase of expired medicines and said that the state was flooded by duplicate fertilisers and pesticides. “The expired medicines have even claimed one life in Chief Minister’s hometown where a woman died after being treated in an eye camp,” Choubey charged.
Vidhan Sabha is a symbol of democracy: Governor
Raipur, March 25, 2010
Vidhan Sabha is a symbol of democracy. This is a sacred place where the society, state and nation’s future path is decided. The words were expressed by Governor Shekhar Dutt during Utkrishtata Alankaran Samaroh 2010 that held here at Vidhan Sabha auditorium on Thursday evening. The programme was presided over by Speaker Dharamlal Kaushik while Chief Minister Raman Singh, Leader of the Opposition Ravindra Choubey and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Brijmohan Agrawal were the special guests on the occasion.
Dutt felicitated BJP MLA Deepak Patel and Congress MLA Ramsundar Das with excellent legislator award while Babulal Sharma, the senior journalist of Hindi daily Amrit Sandesh, received excellent parliamentary journalist award. The three award winner received memento, shawl, shreephal and Rs 25,000 from the Governor.
Tiwari elected BJP corporators’ leader
Sunil Bandre becomes party whip
Raipur, March 25, 2010
The BJP corporator Subhash Tiwari will be the leader of opposition in RMC while Sunil Bandre will be the party whip. The decision was taken after a meeting of BJP leaders that held here at Ekatma Parisar. It was further decided in the meeting that the responsibility of party’s spokesperson at RMC would be given to Suryakant Rathore while Prafulla Vishwakarma would be the deputy leader.
In the meeting, a majority of the BJP corporators suggested the name Subhash Tiwari for leader of opposition in RMC considering his seniority. After discussing with the senior leaders, Bhojwani announced Tiwari as the BJP corporators’ leader at RMC. Similarly, the leaders also unanimously agreed on the names of Bandre, Rathore and Vishwakarma for party whip, spokesperson and deputy leader respectively.
The party announced these names just a couple of days before the municipal budget that will be presented during the general body meeting on March 29.
Tiwari, who has been elected as corporator for the third time, was the frontrunner for the coveted post of corporators’ leader and the party had played a balancing game by giving him the significant responsibility.
Similarly, Bandre also won the civic polls for the third time and became corporator. In the last tenure of the municipal, he was the member of Mayor-in-Council (MiC) owing to his proximity with former mayor Sunil Soni. The party also tried to satisfy Rathore who was earlier among the claimants for the post of RMC Speaker.
Leelaram Bhojwani chaired the meeting in which PWD Minister Brijmohan Agrawal, BJP (Raipur City) president Rajiv Agrawal, Sachchidanand Upasne, former mayor Sunil Soni along with all the BJP corporators in the RMC were also present.
BJP coporators’ meeting tomorrow
Raipur, March 25, 2010
The new leader of the opposition in the RMC Subhash Tiwari informed that he would take BJP corporators meeting on March 27 in which they would frame strategy to trap the Congress in general body meeting.
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