Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra: The Election Commission on Thursday requested the Central authorities not to undertake the proposed Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra in the 5 election-bound states till December 5. The Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra is a large-scale outreach program centered on authorities schemes and initiatives.
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Mizoram are scheduled to go for polling between November 7 and November 30, with the outcomes set to be declared on December 3 in these 5 states.
Here’s what EC stated to Centre
In a letter addressed to Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, the Election Commission has requested that the federal government chorus from appointing “district rath prabharis” in the states getting ready for elections and in the Tapi constituency of Nagaland, the place a by-election is scheduled.
“It has been brought to the notice of the Commission that a letter has been circulated to the ministries for the nomination of senior officers as ‘District Rath Praharis’ as special officers for the proposed ‘Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra’ starting from 20th November, 2023,” the Commission stated.
The Election Commission highlighted that elections have been introduced in the states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Mizoram. “Commission has directed that the aforesaid activities should not be taken in the constituencies where Model Code of Conduct is in force up till 5th December, 2023,” it stated.
What did the federal government say?
Earlier in the day, the federal government had made it clear that the yatra will skip the poll-bound states, stating that its ‘Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra’, which is geared toward making certain the implementation of the Centre’s welfare schemes in rural India will not be taken out in the poll-bound states the place mannequin code of conduct is in place.
Apurva Chandra, the Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, stated that the yatra will begin in the poll-bound states- Telangana, Rajasthan, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh- as soon as elections are concluded. “There is no plan to start the ‘Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra’ in election-bound states where the model code of conduct is in place. In poll-bound states the yatra will start when the model code of conduct is lifted,” Chandra stated.
Chandra stated a call has been taken to drop the phrase ‘rath’ to refer to the automobiles publicising authorities schemes throughout 2.55 lakh gram panchayats and practically 18,000 areas in city areas.
Viksit Bharat Sankalp yatra
‘Viksit Bharat Sankalp’ yatra might be launched on November 15 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the event of Birsa Munda Jayanti. More than 2,500 IEC vans will cowl 2.5 lakh gram panchayats and 3700 city native our bodies in over 14 thousand areas. Yatra will start in tribal areas and can go on for 2 months.
As a part of ‘Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra’, which might be launched after Diwali, specifically customised automobiles or ‘raths’ will roll out to the size and breadth of the nation, reaching the focused beneficiaries of central schemes and making certain that they’re being carried out correctly.
The goal of the ‘Viksit Bharat Sankalp’ yatra is to attain out to the final particular person, yatra intends to spotlight central authorities schemes and its advantages via private tales, expertise sharing, nukad nataks and even quizzes may even be organised to make folks conscious of advantages of schemes run by the central authorities.
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