Go to districts & help implement schemes: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to ministers

JAIPUR: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday pulled up some of his cabinet colleagues who have been blaming their below-par performance on officials.
At a cabinet meeting, Gehlot directed all the ministers to go to the districts regularly and help implement the welfare schemes by taking the local MLAs into confidence. The education department was in the line of fire after senior minister Shanti Dhariwal said RSS sympathisers were still at the helm of affairs in the department and that they were putting hurdles in the transfer of teachers.
PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasra also had a heated argument with education minister BD Kalla in Udaipur over the transfer and posting of teachers. The government had recently lifted the ban on transfers. Most of the transfer requests are in the education department.
Gehlot said if any official was found corrupt or not up to the mark, matter must be reported to him directly so that he would take action. "But that is no ground for denying the people the benefits of the schemes," he said.

The cabinet meeting chaired by the CM also decided to set up Rajiv Gandhi Centre of Advanced Technology (R-CAT) Institute as a society organisation. The bylaws of the society were also approved. This centre will be established as a finishing school for the youth with opportunities for multi-disciplinary research and certificate courses in the latest IT technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics and virtual reality. Setting up R-CAT was announced in the budget session for 2021-22.
The cabinet also decided to name the Government Higher Secondary School at Bhusawar, Bharatpur, after former CM Jagannath Pahadiya. An in-principle decision was also taken to name Bharatpur Medical College after late Pahadia, who also served as the Governor of Bihar and Haryana.
It was also decided in the cabinet meeting that the Mandi Act would be amended for the provision of 'mandi area' in place of the existing provision of Section 17 and Section 17-A of Rajasthan Krishi Upaj Mandi Act, 1961. With the amendment, provisions of the Mandi Act will be applicable on the commercially advertised agricultural commodities being purchased from farmers by industrial units and business firms operating in the Mandi area. Thus Mandi Fee and Farmer Welfare Fee will become effective on the business being done both on the Mandi premises and outside.
The cabinet decided to allot 9,479.15 bighas (2,397.54 hectares) of government land at village Bandha in Jaisalmer district to M/s Adani Renewable Energy Holding Ltd. for setting up of a 1,000-MW solar power project.
It was also decided that the Rajasthan State Employees General Provident Fund Rules, 2021 would be amended so that the provisions of these rules will be applicable to the state employees appointed on and after January 1, 2004, with the reintroduction of the old pension scheme.
The cabinet also decided to establish and operate a Medi-Tourism Wellness Centre at Nathdwara. The centre will be operated on a pilot basis under the aegis of a district-level society through experienced social organisations to provide quality medicines of naturopathy, yoga and Ayurveda.