[ZESTCaste] Welfare schemes worth Rs 920 crore implemented in Punjab (News)

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:24:41 -0800

 
Welfare schemes worth Rs 920 crore implemented in Punjab
Ludhiana | January 23, 2006 7:41:15 PM IST
 
 
With a view to improve the conditions of the poor, the Punjab government has implemented various welfare schemes amounting to Rs 920 crore.
This was stated by Mrs Harbans Kaur Dulo, Parliamentary Secretary, Departments of Rural Development, Panchayats, Food and Supply, Punjab while addressing a function organised to distribute the grant cheques for development projects at village Isru about 45 kms from here today.
Mrs Dulo asserted that it was only Congress that gave top priority to the welfare of scheduled caste and weaker sections of the society.
She informed that Captain Amarinder Singh's government had created a special fund to ensure regular and timely disbursal of pensions to 10,97,386 old aged, widows, orphans and handicapped beneficiaries.
Mrs Dulo also informed that to clear the backlog of the old age pensions of Rs 195 crore, the first installment of Rs 54 crore had already been released.
The scheduled caste households in the state had been given 200 units of free domestic electricity and Rs 100 crore dedicated fund had been created to ensure the uninterrupted implementation of welfare schemes. Rs 2.50 lakh persons living below the poverty line were given insurance cover under the Jan Shree Bima Yojana.
She said that five malras residential plots have also been allotted to 26,059 dalits familes and 80,000 more residential plots would be given to dalits by 2007.
The Parliamentary Secretary asserted that the state would witness unprecedented development in the coming years.
UNI DP PR HT1917

 

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