'Implementing Modi ki Guarantee key priority'

WILL DELIVER ON MODI GUARANTEE: CHHATTISGARH CM

- Ritesh Mishra

INTERVIEW - VISHNU DEO SAI, CHHATTISGARH CM

Twenty days after taking oath as Chhattisgarh chief minister, Vishnu Deo Sai is focussing on implementing “Modi ki Guarantee”. In an interview to Hindustan Times, Sai said that action will be taken against those accused in alleged scams that took place during Congress regime, and that his government will strongly fight to bring Maoism to an end. Edited Excerpts.

It has been 20 days since you have taken oath. What are top priorities of your government?

For our government, the priority as of now is to focus on “Modi ki Guarantee” and to implement them as soon as possible. During the election campaign, our party promised the farmers to provide them pending paddy bonus of two years (2017-2018), which we have given on December 25. We also promised providing pucca houses to 18 lakh (1.8 million) poor people of Chhattisgarh. Apart from that, the government will provide yearly ₹12,000 to married women under the “Mahatari Yojana”. We will work to provide the economically weaker class of the state with a gas cylinder at ₹500 under the Ujjawala Yojna. We will also provide ₹10,000 yearly to landless labourers in rural areas. In tribal areas, we will be buying per sack of tendu patta at ₹5,500 from collectors. There are several other initiatives related to scholarship and education that need to be implemented in the next five years.

There were several schemes started by the Congress government in the last five years? Will they be continued?