Excelsior Correspondent
JAIPUR, Sept 29: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday commended the State’s employees for the effective implementation of the welfare schemes of the Government.
Addressing a gathering of the employees during the Rajasthan Secretariat Employees Association swearing-in ceremony, Gehlot said that in order to establish an accountable, sensitive and people-friendly system to take the welfare schemes to the last person in the row, employees have played a significant role.
He urged upon the employees to make the State front-runner in almost all the field of excellence under the ambitious Mission-2030 of the Government.
He congratulated the newly established team of the secretariat employees after paying floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi-the father of the Nation.
The Rajasthan Chief Minister said that his Government’s rules and policies have always been employee-friendly. He said that under a humane consideration, his Government implemented the old pension scheme for the employees, and provided better promotion opportunities to them under a well-oriented policy.
Gehlot said his Government also implemented the Rajasthan Government Health Policy for cashless treatment of the employees.
By establishing the contractual rules, he further said that around 1 lakh employees have been benefitted in the State thus far.
Meanwhile, addressing the second national conference of Rajasthan Nursing Council at the Birla Auditorium here, Gehlot appealed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to enact a social security law at the Centre.
He said everyone in the nation should get social security along with health services and education, adding that there should be no shortage of water and electricity.
He added that India will become a global leader only when “hunger and malnutrition will end in our country”, asserting that “the ‘Right to Social Security Act’ should be implemented at the Centre.”
Referring to other welfare schemes, including gas cylinders for Rs 500, 100 units of free electricity and Annapurna food kits for poor families, Gehlot said they were not needed if the right to social security was made a law in the country.
According to an official statement, the Chief Minister said the Rajasthan Government is continuously making important decisions in the field of education and health.
“Unprecedented work has been done in the field of medicine and health in the last five years,”Gehlot said, adding that government medical and nursing colleges are being opened in all the districts of the state, while public health colleges in every division.
“All these decisions have paved the way for Mission-2030 to make the state the leader in the country,” he added.
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