To know villagers’ woes Government will go to villages for 15 days: CM Himanta

 STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: Ministers, MLAs, and officials will go to the villages to ensure that the benefits of government schemes reach the last-mile beneficiaries of the state and to see if the roads, bridges, power connections, and school infrastructure that the government claims to have built are actually seen on the ground.

Addressing the media today, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “The State Government has 15 beneficiary schemes for farmers, divyangs, widows, people of lower income groups, and others. Often, we receive complaints from eligible people regarding not getting benefits from schemes. Many people say that they have no roads, bridges, power connections, good school buildings, etc.”

He said, “How can we know the real picture of rural Assam by sitting at Dispur? So, for a spot verification, the whole government will go to the villages for 15 days in September to verify who is deprived of the benefits of schemes meant for them. The Chief Minister and ministers will stay in villages for 15 days; MPs and MLAs will spend seven days; and 5,000 select government officials will stay for three days, where the villagers will provide them shelters.”

The Chief Minister said that the entire exercise is to make the benefits of various schemes reach saturation levels.

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