Jharkhand government goes online to seek suggestions for budget

JAMSHEDPUR: The Jharkhand government has started seeking suggestions from people online for next year's budget and have received around 200 suggestions so far, Chief Minister Raghuvar Das said today.

"We will start making visit to each commissionaries and seek people's suggestion before finalising the state budget," he said here.

Das said the priority of his government is to ensure overall growth of the mineral-rich state, including development of rural people by improving irrigation facilities. "Unless villages are developed, we cannot expect to achieve the desired goal," he said.

The state government has decided to allocate 80 per cent of development fund to elected local bodies to develop primary healthcare, education, irrigation while government officials would prepare the estimation of these projects, the CM said.

The increasing percentage of votes in the ongoing Panchayat polls has reflected people's faith in the government, he said.

There would be provision for improvement of primary education and health sector in the 2016-17 budget, Das said.

Though there are hospitals and schools in the state, there is a shortage of doctors and teachers and students were forced to sit on sacks in schools, he said.

"We want to end such practises and decided to improve the basic infrastructure of these sectors," he said.

"If the government constructs a hospital or school, we will also ensure that there is adequate number of doctors, teachers, and desks, chairs, library etc," he said.