Jaipur, On the call of Chief Minister Smt.
Vasundhara Raje, the people of Rajasthan burst up to join the Mukhyamantri Jal
Swavlamban Abhiyan on Wednesday. The CM herself held a spade and a flagon at
village Gardan Kheri in Jhalawar district to launch this ambitious state-wide
campaign for water conservation.
As the CM led
the crusade, general public from all across the state gave an overwhelming
response and joined her campaign with body, mind and wealth. In Jhalawar alone,
within a few hours of the CM's call, people contributed over Rs 7 crore for
this.
Smt. Raje
started this Abhiyan amid chants of vaidik mantras and all-religion prayers at
Gardan Kheri village. The campaign simaltaneously started at 3,529 villages in
the state. She herself did shramdan at Chechi waterpond of the village for half
an hour. During this, she dug soil with a spade and threw it on the banks of
pond by transporting it on her head in a flagon.
On the CM's
appeal religious leaders, public representatives, officials-employees and
general public extended their support to the campaign. All ranks and files of
Rajasthan Police announced to donate one-day salary of theirs for Jal Abhiyan.
She said that if people continue to support this movement, the dream of making
Rajasthan a self-sufficient state in water would come true.
Smt. Raje said
that Mukhyamantri Jal Swavlamban Abhiyan would lead Rajasthan to a water revolution.
This would change the famine and droughts in the state to happy times. Through
this campaign of developing watershed structures, the dream of linking rivers
visualised by former Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee had started
taking shape in Rajasthan, she said. She stated that with such development
works of Jal Swavlamban, drought-affected 8 districts of Maharashtra had become
self-sufficient in water. "But, we have to make the whole state
self-sufficient," she asserted.
The CM said
that the works of developing watershed structures, which started on Wednesday,
would be completed by June 30 and it would start benefitting the state by next
year. She thanked religious leaders, public representatives,
officials-employees and media alongwith the people of entire Rajasthan, for
their response to her call.
Prior to this,
Smt. Raje sought blessings of religious leaders for this campaign. Swami
Divyanand Teerth of Jyotirmath Avantar Peeth Bhanpura, Madhya Pradesh;
Yuvacharya Gyananand Teerth of Shankaracharya Peeth Bhanpura; Father Thomas of
Jhalwar; Gyani Pritam Singh of Mangalpura Jhalwara; City Qazi Mufti Amiruddin
of Pirawa conducted religious prayers on the spot.
During this,
the CM distributed funds worth over 50 crores for various government welfare
schemes to 6,758 beneficiaries. She also announced that seven panchayats of
Jhalawar district had been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF). She thanked the
sarpanches and other representatives of these panchayats for this achievement.
District
in-charge Minister Yunus Khan, Member of Parliament Shri Dushyant Singh,
Chairperson of Public Grievances Redressal Committee Srikrishan Patidar, MLAs Narendra
Nagar and Ramchandra Sunariwal, Zila Pramukh Tina Kumari Bheel, Social activist
Shyamsundar Sharma, public representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions,
office-bearers of different organizations and dignitaries were also present.
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