Raipur,
February 27, 2013
Leader of opposition Ravindra Choubey on Wednesday alleged that the BJP
government spent about Rs 3 lakh crore in past nine years, but failed to
produce anticipated result.
“Where has this massive fund gone? The government
did not make any progress in social, infrastructural and agriculture sectors. It
should have done self-analysis before this budget but it refrained to do so. In
ten years, there has been decline in legislature’s respect,” Choubey said while
participating in debate over government’s income and expenditure for 2013-2014
in state assembly.
He said the government also lost control over law
and order. “The condition of entire state is pathetic. The borders of
Chhattisgarh are not secure. The recent criminal incidents are eye-opener for
everyone. The government exists only around national highways in Bastar while
the interior region is being controlled by parallel government,” he added.
He charged that funds were not released for
renovation of ashram hostels despite announcement made by the government in
previous budget due to administrative anarchy.
“In Chhattisgarh, babudom is dominant and the ruling has lost control
over administrative department,” he said.
“The government’s claims of better financial
management have also been exposed as it failed to spend 52% of the budgetary
funds last year,” he added.
He said the government did not do anything in
expanding health facilities in remote areas. Besides, he pointed towards lack
of doctors and medicines. He further said the entire state had become market of
substandard medicines, fertilisers and seeds.
He expressed his surprise that the chief minister
Raman Singh did not mention anything abut Shikshakarmis. “These contract teachers
run the government’s school education programme in the state but their demands
were not met by the ruling party,” he said.
He also grilled the government for not making
provision of adequate godowns to store foodgrains and failing to check liquor
consumption despite launching deaddiction drive.
He reiterated that the government ignored
farmers. “In power surplus Chhattisgarh, the farmers do not get uninterrupted
supply of electricity for irrigation. The problem of frequent power cut is a
common scene in rural pockets,” he said.
He asked the government how it claimed of rise in
crop production when crop area of paddy alone had shrunk by one lakh hectare. “This
information was provided by agriculture minister Chandrashekhar Sahu himself to
Congress MLA Pratima Chandrakar on latter’s query,” he said.
“This government has actually failed to touch the
dimensions of development which the great visionaries of Chhattisgarh had
dreamt,” he said.
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