Page 230 - SocialHarmony

234 Social Harmony

tell them that there has been no occasion in my remembrance
when I have not visited the Kumbh fair, and stayed there for
many days. If you visited the Kumbh fair, you would meet your
friends there, you would get an opportunity to be in the
company of saints and seers, but this time, I haven’t been to the
Kumbh fair. The joy I get in the Kumbh fair, I get more joy here
in the poor welfare fairs, I get more virtue here. This is my Ganga
and this is my Kumbh yatra. Today, I can feel the joy of serving
the poor in this poor welfare fair. When I see small children
who have undergone heart surgeries, when I see them play
about here, all my fatigue vanishes into thin air; I feel satisfaction
and bliss on looking at them.

We have been free for 60 years. Ekva Golan village of our
Songarh tehsil had no electricity. In organisation of this poor
welfare fair, the officers visited every village, and this village
got electricity. 666 cases of the inheritance had been pending
for the past 50 years, now this government has settled all those
things. We have supplied electricity to 51,000 BPL families. We
have erected institutions for better education for the poor
children, these institutions are government engineering
colleges, nursing colleges, hostels, twenty-one new higher
secondary schools, technical schools, medical institutions. We
have started helicopter pilot training so that a tribal boy could
learn how to fly a helicopter. We have arranged to send 34
children to Canada. We have also formulated a scheme for the
people in Kotvadia. We have arranged for things so that
hundreds of people can get good education in order to find good
employment.

We buy wheat from the Central Government at five and a
half rupees a kilo, and supply it to the poor family at just two
rupees a kilo; and when we do this, the government at Delhi
does not take kindly to it. It is unfortunate that the Central
Government blames the State Governments for all the ills. The
agricultural production growth rate is just 2.5 per cent in the
whole country, while it is 10 per cent in Gujarat. Gujarat has
produced wheat in order to fill storehouses in Delhi.

It is unfortunate for the country. In the past, the Central
Government never blamed the states. Often it took the blame