RANCHI: Answering to a call attention motion raised by Ajsu-P leader
Sudesh Mahto
, parliamentary affairs minister Alamgir Alam said the state government will consider giving freedom fighter status to activists of the
statehood movement
although there is no such proposal under consideration of the state.
Mahto said the government should honour their contribution and while offering them fourth grade jobs, it should be taken care that they are not engaged in menial jobs as servants to bureaucrats. Alam said the government will keep sentiments in consideration and employ them directly to grade three and four positions depending upon their qualification and skill. Mahto suggested the government should work towards educating and skilling the descendants of statehood martyrs. “Enroll them in schools like Netarhat Vidyalaya for education,” Mahto said.
He further pointed that financial assistance of Rs 30,000 for medical facilities was too meagre which cannot even support the cost of medicines in a family of five. “Statehood activists who were in jail for up to six months are being paid Rs 6,000 per month while Rs 7,500 per month is being paid to those who served a longer term,” Alam said.
In another call attention motion, BJP’s Biranchi Narayan asked the government to come up with a
tourism policy
and give at least eight facilities at each of the 131 sites of tourism in the state.
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