Minister extends financial help to widow during ‘Janmanch’

Tribune News Service

Solan, October 7

The “Janmanch” programme, initiated by the state government to address grievances of the people, lived up to its expectations as  a poor widow, Dhaneshwari Rana,  not only got financial help, but also assistance to educate her two minor daughters.

   Left to fend for herself after her husband Tarsem Rana’s died  on September 19,  Dhaneshwari has been battling the rigours of life on her own without any financial support. 

Her husband, who died of renal failure, left behind two daughters aged 10 and 7. 

It was a bolt from the blue as the woman did not have any source of income or a house at Dharampur village. 

Hoping to find some assistance from the state government, Dhaneshwari came to meet Forest Minister Govind Thakur at Garkhal-Sanawar, where the “Janmanch” programme was under way. She sobbed uncontrollably  while narrating her plight to the minister.

Moved by Dhaneshwari’s  condition, the minister promised the woman to provide her Rs 10,000 for the next five months and also announced that he would bear the cost of her daughters’ education. 

 Though people are supposed to register their complaints during the programme, the minister kind gesture increased the people’s faith in this grievance redress  platform. 

As many as 270 complaints pertaining to various departments like Revenue, TCP, PWD and IPH were received by officials and 15 were dealt with on the spot. 

The issues concerned shortage of drinking water, poor condition of roads, lack of drains and even the imposition of the Town and Country Planning norms in the Kasauli planning area, where 

villagers said they were constrains to construct even a cowshed. 

 Deputy Commissioner Vinod Kumar, Superintendent of Police, Madhusudan Sharma and officials from various departments were present at the programme.