You are accessible and easy with the people, but there are questions about your capability as a tough administrator. How do you explain this?
I did not need that kind of stuff. I believe in team work. Everyone – from a political leader to an official – has worked together in dispensing of their responsibilities in complete cooperation. And you can see the results.
Any dream of achieving something that you had not in the first tenure?
Not really. We had tried to work for the welfare of all classes and communities. However, this time around the priorities would be slightly different, like reaching
potable water to some towns, which is a challenge. We have plans for agricultural projects like making available interest free loans for farmers. We need to make better use of the youth force in the state, hence the need for technical and technological training for them. Young girls will be trained into nursing, and so forth. And especially, we will extend the rice for Rs three per kg needs under the Chief Minister’s Food Programme.
You had announced a metro rail project in the election manifesto, so will that fructify? Do you need funds for that?
The pressure on communication in the Raipur-Durg-Bilaspur corridor is immense, and a metro rail system could be the best way out. And this can be done. We need a proper plan and strategy for this. Money for the heavy investments can be raised from other resources. In fact, this is not the first time that we have started a large project. We are going to lay the longest power transmission line in the country and you shall soon see that happen.
Naxalism is a major headache, with at least one person being killed every day. Why is that we rarely talk of this issue, unlike the way terrorism is a major talking point?
Naxalism is a challenge for the entire country. So far as Chhattisgarh is concerned, the results of giving the menace a good fight has fetched results. For the last five years, we have consistently raised this issue at the Centre, and the tribal communities here have given us the seal of their support for this. True, some critics have questiond the Salwa Judum movement of arming villagers to fight naxalites, but the people of the tribal belt of Bastar have massively supported us by giving us 12 of the 13 seats there, which will help us further in fighting Naxalism.....Continue
I did not need that kind of stuff. I believe in team work. Everyone – from a political leader to an official – has worked together in dispensing of their responsibilities in complete cooperation. And you can see the results.
Any dream of achieving something that you had not in the first tenure?
Not really. We had tried to work for the welfare of all classes and communities. However, this time around the priorities would be slightly different, like reaching
potable water to some towns, which is a challenge. We have plans for agricultural projects like making available interest free loans for farmers. We need to make better use of the youth force in the state, hence the need for technical and technological training for them. Young girls will be trained into nursing, and so forth. And especially, we will extend the rice for Rs three per kg needs under the Chief Minister’s Food Programme.You had announced a metro rail project in the election manifesto, so will that fructify? Do you need funds for that?
The pressure on communication in the Raipur-Durg-Bilaspur corridor is immense, and a metro rail system could be the best way out. And this can be done. We need a proper plan and strategy for this. Money for the heavy investments can be raised from other resources. In fact, this is not the first time that we have started a large project. We are going to lay the longest power transmission line in the country and you shall soon see that happen.
Naxalism is a major headache, with at least one person being killed every day. Why is that we rarely talk of this issue, unlike the way terrorism is a major talking point?
Naxalism is a challenge for the entire country. So far as Chhattisgarh is concerned, the results of giving the menace a good fight has fetched results. For the last five years, we have consistently raised this issue at the Centre, and the tribal communities here have given us the seal of their support for this. True, some critics have questiond the Salwa Judum movement of arming villagers to fight naxalites, but the people of the tribal belt of Bastar have massively supported us by giving us 12 of the 13 seats there, which will help us further in fighting Naxalism.....Continue
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