Jagdalpur, 5 October (Hindustan Reporter). In the matter of death of villagers due to unknown diseases in Gram Panchayat Mundagarh of Koleng area of Bastar district, on Saturday, Congress workers along with Bastar City District Congress Committee President Sushil Maurya and former MLA Jagdalpur Rekhchand Jain reached Koleng and paid tribute to the dead. Took information about the disease from the villagers. Three days after being informed about the continuous deaths by former MLA Rekhchand Jain, the health staff reached Mundagarh in Koleng and set up a camp and started treating the villagers.
Former MLA Rekhchand Jain said that in rural areas, the entire administrative staff reaches there on small religious disputes, whereas till now no public representative has taken notice of the deaths due to this unknown disease. The elected representatives have no concern with the public. The budget has been allotted to the health department by the state government only on paper, but on the ground the district health staff is not receiving the budget. Due to which there is shortage of necessary equipment and medicines in the hospital. At the same time, the important Haat Bazaar Clinic scheme of the Congress government is not reaching rural areas.
Because villagers are being deprived of Haat Bazaar Clinic due to non-availability of diesel petrol for vehicles. Due to the new policies of DMF, the health department has now been eclipsed. Due to which, problems have started in other departments including the health department. Due to the new central policy DMF, employees are being fired, due to which the health department has become completely weak. He said that not even a single meeting was held after the formation of Bastar Authority, which is a failure of the government. The nine months old government of the state has nothing to do with public interest issues and the people. People are continuously dying in rural areas. But the public representatives of this government are not concerned. The people of the state are distressed and the government is busy in advertisements.
During this, General Secretary Altaf Ullah Khan, Hemu Vice President, Paramjeet Jaswal, Neelam Kashyap, Shadab Ahmed, Vijendra Thakur, Manuram Nag District Member, Baliram etc. were present.