06-17-2006, 01:08 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Raje concludes Jal Chetna Yatra by digging sarovar</b>
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Lokpal Sethi | Budha Pushkar (Ajmer)
Rajasthan Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje on Friday concluded<b> her month-long Jal Chetna Yatra by symbolically digging this historic holy Sarovar to restore to its past glory and importance as a Hindu religious site.</b>
<b>Thousands of residents, mostly farmers, joined her in desilting the Sarovar, which is considered as holy a place of worship like the nearby famous Pushkar Sarovar</b>.
It was a scene to watch the CM carrying spaderemoving the silt from the almost ruined Saravoar. <b>She inspired the crowd of over 25,000 to carry out the kar sewa to clear the site of sand.</b>
The party and the Government were preparing for this concluding function to make it a big success like well chalked month-long yatra by her and her Ministerial colleagues.
Though it was focused to make the people aware about the use of water, as the State has acute scarcity of this life saving commodity, it moved the administration to reach out to the common man, to listen to their complaints and to redress them on the spot.
Politically it was one of the biggest mass contact programmes by Vasundhara Raje, who came to power after organising four-month-long Parivartan yatra before the Assembly elections in 2003.
Though opponents criticised it by saying that it was a futile exercise on the part of Raje who has spent crore of rupees of Government funds on it.
<b>But judging from the crowd, which she attracted during the yatra, it has once again been proved that her popularity among the masses was as much as it was before the Assembly election.</b>
During the yatra, over 18,000 villages in 9,000 gram panchayats were visited. According to rough estimates, over 50 lakh people joined it.
She had kicked off the yatra programme on May 16 at Sikar. In all about 250 raths were prepared which moved from village to village. Each of her Minister was made to go in rath yatra in these areas. Similarly, officials of secretary rank were given the responsibly of each district.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Pioneer.com
Lokpal Sethi | Budha Pushkar (Ajmer)
Rajasthan Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje on Friday concluded<b> her month-long Jal Chetna Yatra by symbolically digging this historic holy Sarovar to restore to its past glory and importance as a Hindu religious site.</b>
<b>Thousands of residents, mostly farmers, joined her in desilting the Sarovar, which is considered as holy a place of worship like the nearby famous Pushkar Sarovar</b>.
It was a scene to watch the CM carrying spaderemoving the silt from the almost ruined Saravoar. <b>She inspired the crowd of over 25,000 to carry out the kar sewa to clear the site of sand.</b>
The party and the Government were preparing for this concluding function to make it a big success like well chalked month-long yatra by her and her Ministerial colleagues.
Though it was focused to make the people aware about the use of water, as the State has acute scarcity of this life saving commodity, it moved the administration to reach out to the common man, to listen to their complaints and to redress them on the spot.
Politically it was one of the biggest mass contact programmes by Vasundhara Raje, who came to power after organising four-month-long Parivartan yatra before the Assembly elections in 2003.
Though opponents criticised it by saying that it was a futile exercise on the part of Raje who has spent crore of rupees of Government funds on it.
<b>But judging from the crowd, which she attracted during the yatra, it has once again been proved that her popularity among the masses was as much as it was before the Assembly election.</b>
During the yatra, over 18,000 villages in 9,000 gram panchayats were visited. According to rough estimates, over 50 lakh people joined it.
She had kicked off the yatra programme on May 16 at Sikar. In all about 250 raths were prepared which moved from village to village. Each of her Minister was made to go in rath yatra in these areas. Similarly, officials of secretary rank were given the responsibly of each district.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->