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Mar 31, 2021
Chief Minister Shri Chouhan said that the aim of the state government is that every eligible person should get food grains under the public distribution system. Arrangements have been made to provide food grains to 5 and a half crore poor people in Madhya Pradesh. All the poor people will have a pucca house in the next 4 years. Similarly, proper arrangements will also be made to provide drinking water in every village. With the re-introduce of Sambal Yojana, children are getting benefits of other government schemes including studies and scholarships. Similarly, better arrangements have been made for treatment by issuing Ayushman Cards to 2 crore people in the state. He asked to prepare a proposal for constructing a building for the community’s programmes in Kachora village.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday paid tributes to saint-poet Ravidas on his birth anniversary. PM
Feb 27, 2021, 08:05 AM IST
NEW DELHI: Our country has been home to many poets and saints. Similarly, the mystic saint-poet of the Bhakti movement Ravidas was born in the pious city of Varanasi. The exact date of birth is not known, however it is believed that Guru Ravidas was alive from the 15th to 16th century CE.
Saint Ravidas wrote many devotional songs which became popular during the bhakti movement. It is also believed that Guru Ravidas is the founder of 21st-century Ravidassia religion.
The spiritual figure and guru as he is famously called Sant Ravidas in the regions of Punjab, UP, Rajasthan and Maharashtra, had written some devotional songs which found place in the holy Guru Granth Sahib. The saint-poet worked religiously towards reforming the people from social evils such as caste system.