PM will switch Rs 1,000 crore as a part of authorities’s efforts to empower girls. (File photograph)
Lucknow:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will go to Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj at present to take part in what the federal government says will likely be a “considered one of its type programme” that will likely be attended by over two lakh girls. This would be the tenth day the prime minister will spend in Uttar Pradesh in simply the final month as he leads the BJP’s marketing campaign within the politically essential state the place elections are more likely to begin in lower than two months.
In front-page advertisements throughout newspapers , the federal government stated the programme – held as per ‘the imaginative and prescient of the Prime Minister to empower girls’ – will see PM Modi switch round Rs 1,000 crore within the checking account of Self Assist Teams (SHGs), benefitting round 16 lakh girls members of the SHGs
Whereas the occasion is being organised by the federal government, it’s anticipated to be much like latest ones in Uttar Pradesh within the final month – with the PM utilizing authorities capabilities to take digs on the opposition, notably Samajwadi Social gathering Chief Akhilesh Yadav, together with calling him a terrorist sympathiser at one such occasion. Mr Yadav has hit again difficult the BJP to organise a rally by itself with out utilizing authorities infrastructure.
“This switch is being accomplished beneath the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – Nationwide Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM), with 80,000 SHGs receiving Group Funding Fund (CIF) of Rs. 1.10 lakh per SHG and 60,000 SHGs receiving Revolving Fund of Rs. 15000 per SHG,” the Prime Minister’s Workplace (PMO) stated in a press launch.
Through the programme, the Prime Minister can even switch stipends within the account of individuals engaged in doorstep monetary companies at grassroot degree (often known as Enterprise Correspondent-Sakhis) to assist them stabilise their work earlier than they begin incomes by way of fee on transactions.
The programme can even witness the Prime Minister switch over Rs 20 crore to greater than 1 lakh beneficiaries beneath the Mukhya Mantri Kanya Sumangala Scheme. The Scheme supplies conditional money switch to a lady baby at completely different levels of her life.
“The whole switch is Rs. 15,000 per beneficiary. The levels are at delivery (Rs. 2000), on finishing one 12 months full vaccination (Rs. 1000), on admission in class-I (Rs. 2000), On admission in class-VI (Rs. 2000), on admission in class-IX (Rs. 3000), on admission in any diploma/ diploma course after passing class X or XII (Rs. 5000),” as per the discharge.
Prime Minister will lay the inspiration stone of 202 Supplementary Vitamin Manufacturing Items. These items are being funded by the Self Assist Teams and will likely be constructed at the price of approx Rs. 1 crore for one unit. These items will provide the Supplementary Vitamin beneath the Built-in Youngster Improvement Scheme (ICDS) in 600 blocks of the state.
The politically essential state of Uttar Pradesh is seeing rising prominence for women-centric programmes because the meeting elections close to.
The Congress, which is trying to achieve floor within the state, is seen as highlighting the gender concern in a state the place a number of crimes in opposition to girls have been reported in the previous few years. A few of these instances — together with the gangrape of a Dalit lady in Hathras, and the case in Unnao — made headlines and evoked outrage throughout the nation.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress Basic Secretary and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, additionally gave the slogan ‘Ladki Hoon Lad Sakti Hoon (I’m a lady and I can struggle)’ with give attention to girls.
The get together has stated that it’s going to reserve 40 per cent of its tickets within the coming Uttar Pradesh elections for girls to assist them “carry change and step ahead” in society. It has additionally launched a manifesto for girls forward of the meeting polls, promising 40 per cent of the 20 lakh new jobs her get together goals to create within the state to girls.
The Samajwadi Social gathering has additionally tried to spotlight the schemes run by the get together whereas it was in energy.
“Netaji bought bathrooms constructed for girls and he was additionally the primary to offer gasoline cylinders to them, however by no means bought his pictures clicked. Nonetheless, the present authorities will get its photos clicked. The SP has labored (for the individuals), therefore, you must assist in the formation of an SP authorities,” Aparna Yadav, who’s the spouse of Mulayam Singh’s youthful son Prateek Yadav, stated.