Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel launched a ‘Mahatma Gandhi Rural Industrial Parks’ (MGRIP) scheme, under which ‘gauthans’ (cow shelters in villages) will be developed as ‘rural industrial parks’.
Goverment Scheme
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel launched a ‘Mahatma Gandhi Rural Industrial Parks’ (MGRIP) scheme, under which ‘gauthans’ (cow shelters in villages) will be developed as ‘rural industrial parks’. He unveiled the MGRIP scheme at his official residence to mark the birth anniversary of the Mahatma. In the first phase of the programme, 300 such facilities are being developed across the state for which a provision of Rs600 crore has been made in the budget of the current financial year. Under its ‘Suraji Gaon Yojna’ (village good governance scheme), the state government has set up gauthans in over 8,000 villages where cow dung procured at Rs2 per kilogram under ‘Godhan Nyay Yojna’ is being used to prepare vermicompost. Under MGRIP, selected gauthans are now being developed as rural industrial parks where apart from producing vermicompost, activities like poultry farming, fisheries, food processing will also be carried out.
Chhattisgarh Capital- Raipur
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