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Monday, Aug 16, 2004

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Nothing new in Centre's policies, says BJP MP

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, AUG. 15. The Rajya Sabha member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the party in-charge for Karnataka, Ved Prakash Goel, said here today that there was nothing new in the policies of the United Progressive Alliance Government and it was just a continuation of the previous Government's programmes.

Participating in the 58th Independence Day celebrations at the BJP headquarters, Mr. Goel said the present Government had not come out with any clear-cut policy statements on development. The Vajpayee Government had during its tenure tried to give a direction to the country's development, which came to be reflected in speedier economic development besides achieving newer heights in information technology, scientific development, and trade.

Development

While at the time of independence the nature of sacrifice was different, today we need to rededicate ourselves to serve the nation. He called upon party workers to reaffirm their commitment to socio-economic-political development of the country and take all sections on the road to development.

The President of the State unit of the BJP, H.N. Ananth Kumar, MP, who hoisted the national flag said post-independence India emerged stronger with self-confidence and self-sufficiency.

Impetus

Mr. Ananth Kumar said it was essential to give a further impetus to social, rural, health, science, and ecology sectors for overall development, besides consolidating gains in frontier technologies such as atomic, space and information technologies etc. Mr. Ananth Kumar said that Adamya Chetana would extend free midday meal facility to the Mahila Vidyalaya in Seshadripuram here.

After distributing books free at the school, Mr. Ananth Kumar said Adamya Chetana had already extended the "Aatha Patha" — a unique concept for the development of government schoolchildren by engaging innovative methods of teaching through games, story telling, songs, drama, dance etc.

Adamya Chetana is a non-governmental organisation headed by Tejaswini Ananth Kumar, wife of Mr. Ananth Kumar, and is now extending free midday meals to over 15,000 children in 80 schools in and around Bangalore.

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