J'khand budget to be poor, youth, women & village centric: Das

Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das today said the state budget will be centred around the poor, the youth, the women and the villages.
The budget would also include the Tana Bhaghats, who had participated in the freedom struggle.
Das said the budget would be based on the development of villages, an official release said.
The state government was engaged in the development of connecting one another, Das said calling upon the people to connect with the administration and participate in the development works.
Addressing a meeting at B S College Stadium here after district development festival and cleanliness programme, Das said the 12th Five-Year Plan had ended, but poverty and unemployment had not reduced because common people could not participate in the welfare schemes.

The state government wanted every village to be developed, ensuring participating of the people, the CM said adding, schemes become successful if people participate in it and Lohardaga district has done this and it was an example for other districts.

Das said it was an electronic age and if one did not walk with time the person would be left behind, adding, in two years time panchayat secretariats would be given Internet facility through Bharat Net and 32,000 villages would be connected with the Internet, the statement said.
In three years, 30 lakh households would get electricity, he said.
Das asked ward members and mukhias to understand their responsibilities and develop their villages with people's participation.

He called upon ward members to play an important role to put an end to middle men (in development works) at block level and ascertain that government schemes were reaching to the beneficiaries.
Make the villagers aware of their rights, Das said and added it was the government's priority to stop drop outs from schools.
The Chief Minister said thirty lakh toilets would be constructed by 2018, the statement added.