RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, June 28: Chief Minister Hemant Soren today handed over appointment letters to 500 students who successfully completed their skill training in different trades organized by the state government with the support of Praja Foundation at its eight Nursing Kaushal College and 28 Kalyan Gurukuls running across.
The CM, on this occasion, expressed his concern over the law under which a pharmacist is required to run a medicine shop.
According to him, the law is old and had been formulated when medicines were used to be prepared on the spot unlike present days when everything is written on the container and wrapper of the medicines and any literate person can sell it without much problem.
Soren also shared his plan to run the medicine shop without a pharmacist and connect with medical circuit to ensure proper health care to people residing in the remote areas and die even in case of minor disease due to delay in availability of ambulance, medicines and doctors.
He said he recently inaugurated two medicine shops in two Panchayats of Chatra district and the medicine shops will be run by an educated youth. He said very soon more such shops will be opened in other panchayats. As a medicine shop is opened in Panchayat, very soon other medical facilities will start getting to people in rural areas.
Though Soren expressed his concern over the rule of having pharmacists at drug stores, he supported the importance of technical education for prosperity and development.
“Everything is being done with the help of machine today….The work which a mason does is being done by machine….Robotic surgery is going one…Thus having technical knowledge is necessary…a skilled person cannot starve,” he said
He added that it was due to lack of proper technical education that the work which can be done without delay is delayed by many days. He presented an example of transformer repairing saying if each Panchayat has a transformer repairing shop, power will not elude for a long time in case of transformer fault in rural areas.
While talking this, the CM shared the steps he had taken to make people self-dependent in the state. He said that 75 percent of jobs in the private sector are reserved for locals. He also counted the achievements of his government.
