Bhubaneswar: A meeting of the Odisha Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Employees Welfare Coordinating Council was held at the Rabindra Mandapa on Sunday. Addressing the meeting, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said, “Education and awareness are the basic steps of social development. With these two, we have to continue our tradition.”
The Chief Minister further said that everyone is committed to the development of the people of Odisha. “Our Cabinet is meeting every week to protect the interests of the people for the development of Odisha and we all have to make a joint effort to move Odisha forward. Baba Saheb Bimarao Ambedkar has provided equal rights for everyone and we have to move forward with the all-round upliftment of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Castes and backward community members by holding the hands of those who are left at the bottom of the society. Now, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes members are slowly getting their rights. Various government programmes are working for the welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.”
According to Majhi, schools and hostels are functioning to educate them and a scheme is being launched to prevent mid-term dropouts. He said it is vital to involve the Primitive and Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) in our society. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started a new programme to give proper rights to the tribals and integrate them into the mainstream of society.
“Thousands of employees and officers of our state right from Class IV employees to IAS officers who are members of this council are engaged in the welfare of the people of the entire state, especially people belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. It is the responsibility of everyone to bring about the economic and social development of the Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Tribes in Odisha and bring them together with the upper castes.
Union Tribal Affairs Minister Joel Oram joined the programme and said that leadership is not a power, but a duty. This applies to all of us. Today, a people’s government has been formed in Odisha and the people’s Chief Minister has taken charge.
Ganeshram Singh Khuntia, State Minister for Forests, Environment and Climate Change, joined as one of the guests and said that the Odisha government under the leadership of the Chief Minister is working to solve the basic problems of the common people and provide justice to them. The Mohan Majhi government is and will continue to work with social responsibility for the welfare of the people in the state. He said that we all have the same partnership that our Prime Minister and Chief Minister have dreamed of to take Odisha forward.
Odisha School and Public Education, Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Tribes Development Minister Nityananda Gond joined the programme saying that everyone should share the responsibility to reach the lower levels of society. If we all work properly at our level then development will be instrumental for the welfare of all. Rural Development, Panchayat Raj and Drinking Water Minister Ravi Narayan Nayak said that the Mohan Majhi government is committed to the development of Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Caste memberss.
Dhananjaya Hembram, president of the council, delivered the welcome speech.
