Some of the Centre’s flagship schemes aimed for rural development will be showcased at a special campaign from Wednesday.
The Bharat Nirman public information campaign by Press Information Bureau (PIB) is aimed at reaching these projects to the rural areas and creating awareness about them. The three-day roadshow at Pandavapura in Mandya will have some 40 stalls wherein National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, National Rural Health Mission, Sarva Shikasha Abhiyan and Bharat Nirman will be showcased.
The PIB additional director-general M V V S Murthy on Tuesday said the campaign is to take the schemes closer to people. These are schemes aimed at rural development since 70% of India’s population live in rural areas. But they contribute meagerly to India’s revenues whereas 30% of the urban areas have transformed as growth engines. There is an imbalance and Bharat Nirman aims to attend this. This is the 14th public information campaign being hosted in Karnataka.
The Rajya Sabha deputy chairman K Rahman Khan will inaugurate the event. On Thursday, a workshop on Anti-Domestic Violence Act and the Right to Information Act and programmes such as total sanitation campaign, women empowerment and PM’s 15-point programme for welfare of the minorities will be organized.
The directorate of advertising and visual publicity is hosting a photo exhibition at the event and there will be screening of films and documentaries. Cultural groups from the Union information and broadcasting ministry will present programmes. There will be a free health check-up camp in the three-day event.