Haryana will step up grassroots outreach, promote natural farming and solar energy, strengthen skill development and prioritise Gurugram’s infrastructure as part of a strategy to accelerate the state’s development, chief minister Nayab Singh Saini said on Saturday.
Saini made the announcement after a meeting of Haryana ministers and MLAs with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, saying the focus would now be on translating the discussions into programmes at the village and constituency levels with greater public participation. A key component of the strategy will be regular engagement with villages. Saini said meetings would be organised regularly in 30 to 35 villages in every assembly constituency.
A group of 200 to 300 people would visit a village once a month, conduct cleanliness drives and hold “Tiffin meetings” with residents.
The government had recently decided that the Food Department would procure foodgrains produced through natural farming without fertilisers and pesticides.
The teams would also discuss local issues with villagers and work towards finding solutions, he said. The objective, according to Saini, is to ensure that government schemes become public campaigns driven by community participation rather than remaining government programmes. Saini said the objective was to build a Haryana where daughters receive education, youth move ahead, farmers prosper and poorer families live with dignity. He also said ministers and MLAs had been asked to encourage every family in every village to adopt natural farming on at least one acre. Saini also said the government would work to further improve Gurugram, describing it as a global city rather than merely a city of Haryana. The chief minister said Haryana would also work towards strengthening its economy and contributing to the national target of a developed India. He said the state’s progress in agriculture, skills, villages, energy and the economy would collectively contribute to the broader development objective.
