By IANS
Raipur : The Chhattisgarh government plans to develop the infrastructure of rural hamlets of the state’s five backward districts by investing Rs.30 million over the next one year, a senior minister said Sunday.
“Government is going to invest almost Rs.30 million in facility-deprived forested traditionally backward areas of Surguja, Jashpur, Raigarh, Korba and Bilaspur to build quality roads and canals for irrigation, construct schools and improve health facilities,” Rajesh Munat, minister of state for Industry (Independent charges), told IANS.
“The amount will be invested through Surguja Development Authority over the next 12 months and the basic thrust will be on creating infrastructure in the five districts having a massive stock of traditionally backward population,” the minister stated.
The politicians largely blame the rising human trafficking in Chhattisgarh as a result of age-old backwardness and poverty and insist on the need to pump in massive money by the government in the five northern districts to accelerate the pace of development, improve literacy rate and quality of life.