True development will be felt in Qila Raipur! - 12/02/2007
The Congress candidate form Qila Raipur has reiterated that if elected, he will ensure that the people of Qila Raipur will for the first time feel development around them. He says the rural nature of his constituency poses unique challenges. He has well laid out plans to resolve them.He revealed some of his plans to this correspondent saying his top priority would be to ensure debt relief to small and marginal farmers. He is already in discussions with some agencies to bring village banking and other microfinance schemes to help backward classes and other poor sections to run cottage industries and subsistence level businesses.
He plans to lobby for a transparent system for appointments and transfers for government employees, especially teachers. He advocates a participative approach to resolving issues related to PSEB employees.
Being a NRI himself, he plans to use high technology and Internet to bring top level facilitation and advisory services to the village level to help the large number of NRIs hailing from his area.
Acknowledging unemployment among the youth in rural areas as a major problem, he says major investments are being lined up to enhance the existing vocational training facilities and setting up new ones.
He reminds about the immense value and reach that e-governance can bring to delivering good governance especially in rural areas and says that e-governance will be the backbone of his mechanism of delivering on promises.
One of his innovative ideas is to launch the Rural Olympics on the international stage through a public - private partnership project especially designed for this purpose.
Jassi seems to have a firm grip of the issues facing his constituency and says long term development is only possible through raising awareness and education among the masses especially the weaker sections. In this regard, he plans to launch special programmes and incentives for healthcare, women’s participation in education, sports, small businesses and eliminating the evils like drug and liquor abuse.
