“ Lokashakti Abhiyan” questioned the extravagance expenditure on special guest house for the President of India

By Bijay Mishra
Bhubaneswar, 29-8-22

The “ Lokashakti Abhiyan” has questioned the extravagance expenditure on special guest house for the President of India .Writing a letter to Chief Minister, Odisha , Mr Prafulla Samantara, President , told that , during last  22 years , the primary education system  has been reduced to a sorry state where there are no required teachers appointed  for which the government schools including high schools  failed to fullfil the right to education of students with equal opportunity and quality education . Government pleads  always there is no sufficient fund for appointment of teachers.
 Meanwhile the  government abolished thousands of primary and high schools in name of shortage of students presence . Mr Samantaray questioned , why and how  chilldren of remote villages specially tribal areas would be attracted or their have-not parents have faith in failed system to send their children to schools where one teacher is for five classes?”
Again the  government has not been able to feed all deprived people of which more than left out 14 lakh people have no ration cards to get monthly rice quota. 
  In this background , the government want to spend 50 crore rupees to build a special luxury  circuit house for the present President of India at her home town . Mr Samantaray told , “This is a shocking news to the concerned citizens like me .When you continue to  demand to get special status  to our state Odisha as a most backward state for more financial aid , how is it wise and justified to spend a huge money for staying  of the President a few days while her occasional short visit.”
         The recent calamity in Kashipur block exposed that tribal people have no clean drinking water service and necessary primary health service as the  government has no will to p rovide minimum basic needs as constitutional responsbility.
     He told that “A President like Mrs Draupadi Murmu who hails from most downtraden community never needs such luxury guest house for  rare visits to her home. Rather this people's money from exchequer of a poor state   can be spent to establish a well equiped residential primary education institution for tribal and dalit children with trained  teachers having tribal languages in her village or district in her honour with a small guest house for visiting guests like the President and of  educational carriculam.
   Mr Samantaray appealed the Govt not to have such  luxury and expensive Guest house for the native President at the cost of poor people'money when her fellow community people of the country including Mayurbhanj district  are still under poverty line.