Include Madhya Pradesh in Basmati-producing areas: Chouhan

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 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.

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.

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 26th, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has urged union ministers from the state to exercise their influence at the centre and help resolve issues that are crucial for the development of the state. Chouhan Wednesday sent a letter alleging 'partial and unjust treatment being meted out to the state by the central government' to Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh, Commerce and Industries Minister Kamal Nath, Minister of State for Agriculture, Food and Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs Kantilal Bhuraia and Minister of State for Information Technology Jyotiraditya Scindia.

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.

February 12th, 2009 BHOPAL - The interim railway budget presented Friday is disappointing for Madhya Pradesh, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said. 'The proposals like plying a daily Habibganj-Kurla train, running daily train between Bhopal and Lucknow, making the Puri-Jaipur Express bi-weekly, extending the Shatabdi to Indore, starting a third Bina-Itarsi line and adding a coach from Bhopal to the Jabalpur Mumbai-Garib Rath have not been implemented,' he said in a statement.

January 15th, 2009 BHOPAL - Hundreds of guest lecturers from across Madhya Pradesh held a sit-in outside the house of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here Friday demanding regularization of their service. The protestors demanded to meet the chief minister.

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.