Cong praises UPA govt for completing 9 years

Raipur, May 22, 2013

State Congress on Wednesday praised party-led UPA government for completing nine years at Centre. The PCC president Nandkumar Patel and CLP leader Ravindra Choubey expressed their gratitude to the UPA government for making several provisions for development of Chhattisgarh.

The duo said the UPA government hiked minimum support price (MSP) of paddy from 580 per quintal to Rs 1250 per quintal in nine years while the then BJP-led NDA government at Centre increased on Rs 60 in five years, i.e. from Rs 490 to Rs 550.

The Centre also established paddy research centre in the state to develop agriculture sector, they added.

Besides, they said, considering industrial development the UPA government approved two rail corridor projects for Chhattisgarh.

They pointed that the Centre also ensure providing better higher education facilities to the state youth and hence took initiative in establishing a central university on the name of Guru Ghasidas at Bilaspur, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and National Institute of Technology (NIT) at Raipur. 

The Centre is further providing minimum job guarantee to the labourers in state through MNREGA, they said. Similarly, under its literacy campaign – Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan the Centre is providing free text books and uniforms to school students, they added.

They said the other central schemes through which Chhattisgarh state is taking benefit are – pradhanmantri grameen sadak yojna (PMGSY), rashtriya parivar sahayata yojna, national horticulture mission, janani suraksha yojna, Mid-day Meal scheme, Rajiv Gandhi drinking water mission, pradhanmantri rojgar srijan karyakram, Indira awas yojna, widow pension scheme, old-age pension scheme, national rural health mission, total sanitation campaign, Indira Gandhi disabled pension scheme, national agriculture development scheme, national food security act, Sanjeevni 108, cash subsidy scheme, etc.