Pointing out the inadequacies in the village stay programme in which senior officers and Ministers camp in villages and attend to the people’s problems, Revenue Minister R. Ashok said the programme needed further improvisation to make it more effective and result-oriented.
Addressing a media conference at a Backward Classes and Minority Hostel at Wadgaon (D) village in Aurad taluk of Bidar district on Saturday, he announced that his next village stay programme would be in Chitradurga district. Mr. Ashok, along with Animal Husbandry Minister Prabhu Chauhan, Deputy Commissioner of Bidar Govinda Reddy ,and other senior officers, stayed in the village on Friday.
“Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has termed the village stay programme as ‘revenue revolution’. We will see that the Deputy Commissioners visit taluk offices four times a week and monitor the work by being present there for a considerable time. I have thus far conducted seven village stay programmes and attended to the problems of over 46,000 people. My eighth village stay programme will be in Chitradurga district and I will conduct it in a unique way… Most of the Dalits have no land to cultivate. I will focus on giving them cultivable land. I will take the people’s demands received in the village stay programmes seriously and try to fulfil them,” Mr. Ashok said.
