BJP’s Minal Choubey pledges to prioritise basic amenities

 

 

 

BJP Mayoral candidate Minal Choubey has announced a focused agenda addressing key civic issues, pledging to prioritise basic amenities such as sanitation, water, and electricity if elected. She assured voters that these fundamental concerns would be her first priority from day one in office during a Rubaru programme at the Press Club on Wednesday. Choubey emphasised the financial support provided by BJP-led Central and State Governments to the Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC). She highlighted her intent to complete pending projects like the AMRUT and Jal Jeevan Mission, stalled under the previous Congress-led administration at RMC. Advocating for women’s empowerment, Choubey promised initiatives to promote employment opportunities for women. She also pledged to address city traffic challenges by streamlining traffic flow and organising the parking system.

 

To curb corruption within RMC, she plans to implement robust monitoring mechanisms. Recognizing the importance of property tax as a primary revenue source for RMC, Choubey proposed a 10% discount for timely taxpayers, encouraging greater compliance and improving the corporation's financial health. Choubey also touched upon public transport concerns, revealing plans to resolve these issues by introducing electric city buses. She stated that the central government has already sanctioned initial funds for a fleet of electric buses, with plans to expand the initiative if successful. On the challenges faced by Housing Board and RDA colonies, Choubey pointed out that while RMC is open to accepting these colonies, the delay lies in the transfer of development funds collected by these agencies. She pledged to study the issue in detail and facilitate a resolution if elected. Choubey acknowledged the strong competition within the BJP for the mayoral post and expressed gratitude for the opportunity. She reiterated her confidence that with double engine government and a BJP led administration in RMC, resolving civic issues would become easy. 

 

 

Chhattisgarh Congress has released its manifesto for upcoming civic bodies elections titled Jan Ghoshana Patra at state Congress party office Rajiv Bhawan in Raipur and all district headquarters of State on Wednesday. The Congress party has made 33 promises including making towns free from stray cattle, special initiative for beautification and conservation of ponds in urban areas, arrangement of toilets in market areas of towns, construction of changing room in ghats and ponds, installation of CCTV camera near schools, colleges, squares by establishing coordination with police control room in view of women safety, arranging of parking and charging for well equipped auto rickshaw/e-rickshaw, honorarium to be increased from Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000 for BPL card holders under Shradhanjali Rashi Yojana, efforts to be made for regularization of temporary employees in civic bodies, door-to-door facility to be provided for payment of property tax and water tax, online facility to be provided for building permission where there is no online facility, transparency in house allotment for homeless people, details of sanitation workers to be displayed on public places, well equipped library to be set up for competitive examinations in every civic body, free water tanker for Dashgatra, marriage of daughter and other social programmes, efforts to be made to make towns dust free, women to be given priority under Pauni- Pasari Yojana, vending zones to be identified on main places of wards for protection of vendors, presidents of civic bodies to be made signatory authority in making payment, community building to be provided free of cost for Kanya marriage in civic bodies, online booking system to be introduced for community building, land title to be provided to landless people, pension facility to be ensured for old-age people, Divyang and homeless people, well-equipped Anganbadi centres to be developed in all wards, sanitary napkins to be distributed free of cost in schools and colleges, door-to-door facility to be provided for distribution of birth, death and marriage certificate, youth hub to be developed for providing employment to youth in civic bodies, special initiative to be taken for generation of employment for women self-help groups, wi-fi facility to be provided free of cost in public places, citizen charters to be made, special relaxation to be provided for payment of property tax within time limit, high-tech rest room to be constructed for journalists in all civic bodies and vegetable markets to be developed in every ward. State Congress President Deepak Baij released the manifesto at State Congress party office Rajiv Bhawan in the state capital. Leader of Opposition Dr Charan Das Mahant released the manifesto at Manendragarh. Former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel released the manifesto at Kawardha. Former Deputy Chief Minister T S Singhdeo released the manifesto in Ambikapur, former Minister Tamradhwaj Sahu in Durg, former Minister Ravindra Choubey in Rajnandgaon, former State Congress President Dhanendra Sahu in Mahasamund, former President Mohan Markam in Kondagaon, former Minister Jaisingh Agrawal in Chirmiri, former Minister Umesh Patel in Raigarh, former Minister Amarjeet Bhagat in Bilaspur, former Minister Amitesh Shukla in Gariaband, MLA Lakheshwar Baghel in Jagdalpur and State Congress Vice President Gurumukh Singh Hora in Dhamtari.