Chouhan seeks union ministers’ help for Madhya Pradesh development

October 7th, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has asked the agriculture ministry to make available 41,000 tonnes of sugar to meet the shortfall during the festive season. "The Government of India should import sugar in order to make it available to the common people at fair price," Chouhan wrote in a letter to Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar late Tuesday.

September 24th, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has urged the centre to include the state among those where the Basmati rice variety is grown, officials said here Thursday. In a letter written to union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar Wednesday, Chouhan requested him to direct the Export Development Authority to include Madhya Pradesh in the areas producing Basmati rice.

September 10th, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for more funds to achieve the task of providing free and compulsory education under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, an official said Thursday. "The efficacious implementation of the right granted would entail both capital and recurring expenditure.

September 3rd, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Thursday expressed profound grief over the untimely demise of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.Rajashekhar Reddy, who was killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday. The country, including Andhra Pradesh, has lost an able administrator and a charismatic politician, Chouhan said in his message.

September 1st, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday said he was not in the race for the post of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president. "These reports are mere media creation and nothing else," Chouhan said.

August 15th, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, on Independence Day Saturday, urged the people to contribute to the state's development by saving water and electricity. Chouhan said development should not be seen just as the government's responsibility, but people should come forward and do their bit too.

August 2nd, 2009 BHOPAL - The union government's move to set up a central development authority for the Bundelkhand region has heated up politics in Madhya Pradesh, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress accusing each other of drawing political mileage from the issue. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has taken strong exception to the move and shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh alleging that it was an attempt to infringe upon the rights of the state.

August 1st, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday opposing initiation of the Central Government to set up a separate Bundelkhand Development Authority. Earlier, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has demanded the creation of such an authority for the development in the backward region of Bundelkhand, which consist parts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

August 1st, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh opposing the setting up of a separate Bundelkhand Development Authority by the central government, an official said Saturday. Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has demanded such an authority be set up to spur development in the backward region that straddles Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

July 6th, 2009 BHOPAL - Describing the union budget as anti-farmer and disappointing for the common man, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Monday said the central government has not shown sincere intention to curb rising prices and counter economic slowdown. "This budget is going to compound the problems of the common man who is already facing the brunt of economic slowdown," Chouhan said in a statement.

June 30th, 2009 BHOPAL - Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka governor Rameshwar Thakur was sworn in here Tuesday as the 18th governor of Madhya Pradesh. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Leader of Opposition in assembly Jamuna Devi, state Congress Committee president Suresh Pachouri, Madhya Pradesh cabinet ministers and other dignitaries were present on the occasion at Raj Bhavan.

March 31st, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Tuesday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to raise strongly at the G20 summit the issue of Indian black money deposited in Swiss banks. In a letter, Chouhan urged the prime minister to raise the issue of tax evaders' money in foreign banks, which is estimated to be 50 to 120 times more than India's GDP.

March 26th, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has again urged the Election Commission to allow the government to do rehabilitation work in drought hit areas of the state. 'This would help arrest the migration of people and ensure that voters vote in their respective villages,' Chouhan said in a letter to the Election Commission Wednesday.

February 22nd, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Saturday embarked on a 'justice rally' to protest the central government's alleged discrimination against the state. 'How can the Congress led by a foreigner understand the woes of poor people?' asked Chouhan before launching the rally from the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters here.

January 12th, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Tuesday said his government was committed to make the state power surplus in near future. Replying to a debate on the motion of thanks to Governor Balram Jakhar's address during the inaugural session of the 13th Madhya Pradesh assembly, Chouhan said the state was facing crisis of power due curtailment in state's share by the central government, non-supply of coal for power plants and lack of water in Indra Sagar and Omkareshwar.