Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot interacting with the beneficiaries at an inflation relief camp.
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After launching inflation relief camps at Jaipur district’s Mahapura village panchayat on April 24, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is making whirlwind tours to all districts in Rajasthan to ensure success of the camps, during which the residents are being linked with as many as 10 public welfare schemes of the State authorities. Mr. Gehlot is probably going to cowl all of the districts by mid-May.
The camps, being organised in all cities and villages throughout the State, have been launched as a novel idea to prolong the advantages of schemes to the folks and publicise the Congress authorities’s achievements. Mr. Gehlot is eager to improve the quantity of beneficiaries following the Congress excessive command’s delicate indicators that this yr’s Assembly election can be fought primarily based on the welfare measures.
Two of the schemes have caught the eye of coverage makers in different States, whereas Mr. Gehlot has urged the Centre to think about implementing them on the nationwide stage. They are the Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme with a canopy of Rs. 25 lakh every year, forming half of the correct to well being, and the availability of LPG cylinders to poor households on the subsidised value of Rs. 500 every.
The Chief Minister has thus far lined Bikaner, Sriganganagar, Hanumangarh, Churu and Sikar districts, touching small villages and hamlets and interacting with the beneficiaries throughout his tours. He addressed public conferences on the camp websites, highlighted his authorities’s achievements and focused the Opposition BJP for its “lack of vision”.
Pradesh Congress Committee president Govind Singh Dotasra has accompanied Mr. Gehlot throughout all of his visits. According to the official sources, over 80.75 lakh Chief Minister’s Guarantee Cards have been distributed to the beneficiaries within the camps until Thursday night. The highest quantity of 14.93 lakh registrations have been made within the Chiranjeevi Scheme, adopted by 11.61 lakh within the scheme without spending a dime electrical energy to home shoppers.
Other schemes for which the residents have been invited to the inflation relief camps and get themselves registered are the free agricultural energy scheme, Annapurna meals packets scheme, extra days in MGNREGS, Indira Gandhi city employment assure scheme, social safety pensions, Chiranjeevi accident insurance coverage scheme and the Kamdhenu livestock insurance coverage scheme.
On Friday, Mr. Gehlot stated at Rawatsar in Hanumangarh district that the folks within the State had witnessed “good governance” over the past four-and-a-half years and no new tax was levied on them by his authorities. “There will be no shortage of resources to run the public welfare schemes and protect the common people against inflation,” he stated.
The BJP has criticised the State authorities’s resolution to organise the camps, saying they have been being held with any eye on the Assembly polls. BJP State president C.P. Joshi stated at a ‘Jan Akrosh’ rally in Banswara on Friday that the camps have been solely meant to showcase the crowds and the officers have been registering the beneficiaries on the idea of the prevailing lists, with out making any recent additions.
