Barmer. All India Congress Committee’s Research Department’s Rajasthan State Coordinator and State Congress Committee member Azad Singh Rathore said that there is a separate budget provision for the development of border areas and villages and towns under it, and in the program made for the coming years, the development of western region. It is unjust not to include the districts in the border areas.
The hilly areas on the northern border of India are as important to win from a strategic point of view, as are those of the western region. They are equally inaccessible, underdeveloped and backward from the point of view of geography and development. Despite all this, it is a wrong decision not to include the western region in the new special plan in the program to develop the border region. This decision is an example of the dominance of regionalism in the decisions taken by the BJP government at the Centre.
Congress party’s youth leader Azad Singh Rathore told that a meeting of the Union Cabinet was held on Wednesday (February 15) under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister, in which several schemes were approved. Union Minister Anurag Thakur told a press conference after the meeting that the cabinet has approved allocation of Rs 4800 crore for the Vibrant Village Programme.
Rathore told that according to the government, work is going to be done to improve connectivity on the northern border under this program. However, he did not give details about the programme. According to the press release issued by the government, this Vibrant Village Program has been started to improve the infrastructure in the villages adjacent to the northern border of India.
In this, there will be provision of budget only for making roads and other infrastructure in 2966 villages of total 19 districts of Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. Apart from this, this program will be different from the Border Area Development Program (BADP) and the central government will bear its cost.
This scheme could have proved to be a boon for Ganganagar, Bikaner, Jaisalmer and Barmer districts of Rajasthan, but due to extreme neglect, these districts have been deprived of this scheme and ridiculed the Thar Desert and the residents of Thar.
The central government has been ignoring the issues related to rail facilities, air service facilities, Desert National Park for Barmer-Jaisalmer, now the central government has planned to separate the western region from the budget plans of the center along with the people of Thar. Cheating.
Rathore has also written a letter to all the MPs of Rajasthan asking them to include the districts of Rajasthan in this scheme. The Barmer-Jaisalmer MP who is also a minister in the Center should either resign from his ineffective post or speak openly against the double and double standards of the Center with Barmer-Jaisalmer and stop the attack on the interests of Thar people. Strong effort should be made.
Even during the discussion with the enlightened people and youth of the city, there is a lot of resentment for not including the districts of Rajasthan in this scheme.
