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Regarding demand for revival of closed paper, sugar, jute
mills in Bihar and development of Seetamarhi temple
SHRI GOPAL JEE THAKUR (DARBHANGA): Hon. Madam
Chairperson, I am grateful to the Hon?ble Speaker, Loksabha- Shri
Om Birlajee for allowing me to speak in Maithili. Madam on behalf
of entire Mithila region I am indebted to him for providing us an
opportunity to express our views in Maithili. The language was
placed in the Schedule to the Constitution of India during the
tenure of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpeyeeji, and under the guidance of
experts with the directives of the utmost revered and most populist
leader of the nation, Shri Narendra Bhai Modiji facilitation for
translation of the Constitution of India into Maithili was completed
and published. I am thankful to him for extending this opportunity to
the experts-team. along with the Maithils. I am grateful for his
esteemed leadership.
Madam Chairperson, the Mithila region is witnessing all-round
efforts made by the Government for expeditious development
works completed and undertaken under the leadership of the PM.
The site for consecrating the piece of pious and traditionally
important land at Ayodhya was taken up and completed at
Ramjanmabhoomi Tirthakshetra, Ayodhya and now people from all
around the world throng there for worship and prayer along with
annual sacraments. On the same line, Madam, a temple has been
constructed at a cost of Rupees 850 crore in Sitamarhi, Bihar for
besetting the female deity Goddess Sita, the all-time-adored
daughter of Mithila.
Madam, the day is celebrated as an epoch-old festival of
RANAVAMI-a cult in prevalence throughout the country. I am
grateful to the hon?ble Home Minister Shri Amit Bhai Shah for
extending support for the sacrament. I am also grateful to the
Prime Minister for setting up of Makhana Board; providing GI
tagging for Makhana-the fox nut; releasing a postal-stamp of
Mithila-Paag; renovation and upgradation of Darbhanga Airport;
construction of an IT park, releasing an amount of 11,500 crore
rupees for solving the recurring annual flood in the region and an
amount of 6,500 crore rupees for raising the height of both the
embankments of the Dam on Koshi river.
Madam, I would like to raise the issues pertaining the region
as well as the state that industrialization has been overlooked
during the tenure of preceding governance and the same need
expeditious revival throughout the state. All possible support be
provided to the state governance for revival of traditional art and
craft as well as taking up production at long-closed industrial units
producing paper, sugar, and jute products at various parts of thestate along with setting up of Food Processing Parks to stop
migration to the other parts of country as well as abroad.