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| Azad woos village headmen with higher remuneration promises | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Chenani, Dec 5: While widening up the campaign for the 4th phase slated for Sunday, the former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said that Congress is the only party which cares for the poor and down trodden people living in most difficult and backward areas of the state and declared that if voted back to power the Congress government would further increase the remuneration of Nambardars and Chowkidars to RS.1000 per month.
Addressing series of election rallies at Gool,Ghordi, Pancheri, Ratnodh, Khadk and Chenani organized in support of the party candidates Ajaz Ahmed, Krishen Chander Bhagat and Jugal Kishore Sharma, Azad said that Congress party is the only party which cares for the poor and downtrodden people living in most difficult and backward areas of the state like Udhampur, Reasi and Doda Districts. He said that this is most unfortunate that even after 60 years of independence there was no trace of roads and it was his government who took upon himself to undertake and to create a massive road network across the state and particularly those areas which have been neglected for the past 60 years. He said never before in the past 60 years so much money have been pumped for the construction of the roads as have been earmarked and spent in 2006-07 and 2007 2008. He promised that the people of far flung areas shall be connected by roads during the next 4 to 5 years.
While addressing the enthusiastic and massive public meetings Azad said that it is for the first time that the construction of 33 district and sub-districts Hospitals was taken up by the state government to be completed within one and a half years.
He said that despite ruling for about 60 years, National Conference (NC) has nothing to take credit for but now only making false promises now.
He said that it was only his government that had realized the difficulties of Nambardars and Chokidars and the pittance they were getting for last many a decades and nobody had ever cared about them. It was he who had increased the honorarium of Nambardars and Chowkidars to Rs.501 from Rs.81 and from Rs.225 to Rs.500 per month respectively. He said that now if he returns to power he would further increase it to Rs.1000 per month and give them some dignity. Similarly, the salary of SPOs was enhanced from 1500 to Rs.3, 000 per month, he added.
He asserted that the Congress party is the best sympathizer of Gujjars, Bakerwals and all other Scheduled Tribes (STs) which is proved by the fact that in this election Congress has given mandate to eight Gujjar leaders while as National Conference (NC) has given only three Gujjar leaders. He said that the political parties over the past years have been misleading the Gujjars of the state on the name of plebiscite or the other pretext while its leaders enjoyed the plum posts and luxuries. He said that after he had noticed that almost every year Rs.30 to Rs.40 crore meant for STs used to lapse every year therefore he constituted a separate directorate for STs. He claimed that he had increased the reservation quota for STs in jobs from 4 to 8 percent and in service promotions from 5 to 10 per cent respectively.
He exhorted the people to realize that without hand –the election symbol of Congress, the plough-the election symbol of NC, is useless.
He promised that if he returns to power he would complete the process of recruiting 80,000 class IV employees, one lakh jobs to unemployed youth, stipend to about 5 lakh unemployed youth, increase the retirement age from 58 to 60 years besides, implementing 6th pay commission recommendations. He sad that during his regime 15,028 Anganwadi Centres were opened and about 30,000 Anganwadi Workers were appointed unlike only 3,755 Anganwadi centres in previous 60 years. He said that had his government not fallen prematurely more 8,000Anganwadi Centres would have been opened and 16000 Anganwadi Workers would have been appointed. He also reminded the public to realize his revolutionary agrarian reforms under the Roshni Scheme under which free electricity and the proprietary rights of about 22 lakh kanal of state land was granted to poor farmers. |
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