Over 6,000 panchayats in Chhattisgarh will receive a sum of ₹10,000 every to celebrate Chhattisgarhi festivals. Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Thursday launched the ‘Mukhyamantri Chhattisgarhi Parab Samman Nidhi Yojana’ for non-scheduled areas of the State in a digital programme organised at his residential workplace.
A authorities assertion mentioned that the initiative was launched with “the aim of preserving and promoting local festivals, culture and tradition of rural areas”.
“The primary unit of this scheme will be gram panchayat. Under this scheme, to celebrate these local festivals, an amount of ₹10,000 will be given to every gram panchayat in two instalments,” it added.
“Although the ₹10,000 given under the Mukhyamantri Chhattisgarhi Lok Parab Samman Nidhi is not a huge amount, due to the Chhattisgarhi festivals being organised through the panchayats, people are following their tradition, and our new generation is adopting this tradition,” mentioned Mr. Baghel on the launch occasion.
The growth is among the many checklist of initiatives to celebrate local festivals and celebrate varied aspects of the tradition (or reasonably cultures of a various State) launched by Mr. Baghel since assuming energy in 2018.
In the previous, the federal government had included some local festivals within the checklist of holidays and in addition arrange statues of ‘Chhattisgarh Mahtari’ (Mother).
The ruling Congress asserts that constructing a robust regional join is a key ingredient of the “Chhattisgarh model” of governance it needs to promote.
