Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah laid foundation stone of 70 development works worth Rs 507 crore and inaugurated many other works of Rs 26 crore in Satna, on Friday. Under the leadership of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Government of Madhya Pradesh has done many works for welfare of Kol community and tribal brothers and sisters. The Union Home Minister was addressing Kol Janjati Mahakumbh, organised on the occasion of Shabri Mata Janm Jayanti at Satna. Earlier, Shah offered prayers at Maa Sharda Shaktipeeth at Maihar. Many dignitaries, including Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union Minister of State for Steel, Faggan Singh Kulaste, BJP State President and MP, V D Sharma and MP, Ganesh Singh were present on the occasion.

Union Home Minister added that Antyodaya means to pave way to live with dignity for poor of the society. He said that after becoming Prime Minister in 2014, Narendra Modi said that his Government is government of tribals, Dalits, backward and poor people. Fulfilling his each and every promise, Modi has worked to implement poor welfare schemes at grassroot level. During previous government, there were no toilets in the houses, Modi built toilets in 10 crore houses, of which the maximum toilets were built in the houses of tribals. PM Modi gave houses to 3 crore people, provided electricity, gas cylinders, took care of the entire health expenses of up to 5 lakh and provided both doses of corona vaccine free of cost. He said that PM Narendra Modi also decided to give 5 kg of grain per month to every poor household.

Amit Shah said that Kol community had very significant contribution in freedom movement. The government led by Prime Minister Modi is establishing tribal freedom fighters museum across the country at a cost of Rs 200 crore, bravery of 1831’s Kol rebel is engraved in all the museums. He said that be it bravery of Gond Maharani Durgavati, sacrifice of Rani Kamalapati, be it freedom fighter Buddha Bhagat and Jova Bhagat, all of them have been revered and commemorated by the government of Madhya Pradesh under the leadership of CM, Shivraj Singh Chouhan. He said that Shivraj Singh Chauhan has also built the memorial of Raghunath Shah and Shankar Sah at a cost of about Rs 5 crore.

Amit Shah further said that during previous Government, Rs 24,000 crore were given for tribal community in the budget, which was increased to around Rs 90,000 crore by the PM Narendra Modi. He said that earlier there were 167 Eklavya Model School for children of tribal community, their number has been increased to 690. PM Modi has increased the amount of scholarship from Rs 978 crore to Rs 2,533 crore. He said that all the programmes launched by government of Madhya Pradesh under the leadership of Shivraj Singh Chouhan for poor and tribal welfare were stopped by the previous government, but soon after the formation of Government under the leadership of Shivraj, the MP Government started them again. He said that the double engine Government under Narendra Modi at the Centre and Shivraj Singh Chauhan in Madhya Pradesh is determined to bring happiness to the lives of every poor of the State.