Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday reached out to women within the BJP-ruled State by launching a scheme to supply ₹1,000 month-to-month assist and slammed the earlier Congress Government for “stopping” welfare measures meant for women, months forward of the Assembly polls.
Mr. Chouhan, who’s celebrating his sixty fifth birthday on Sunday, appealed to women to proceed to help the State Government and listed varied schemes launched for their welfare.
Addressing a gathering of women at Jamboree Maidan within the M.P. capital, the Chief Minister knelt earlier than the viewers with folded fingers and stated, “Pranam and Namaskar… you mean Durga, Laxmi and Saraswati to me”, and introduced that “Ladli Behna Sena” will likely be shaped to straighten wrongdoers.
He rolled out the ‘Mukhyamantri Ladli Behna Yojana’ by unveiling the plaque of the scheme with distant management and filling out an utility kind for a lady.
Under this scheme, women will likely be given ₹1,000 help monthly with sure riders, together with that they don’t seem to be Income Tax payees and their households’ annual earnings was beneath ₹2.50 lakh yearly.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan felicitates a lady through the launch of ‘Mukhyamantri Ladli Behna Yojana’, at Jamboree floor, in Bhopal on Sunday.
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“The [erstwhile] Kamal Nath Government [of Congress] stopped the ‘Mukhyamantri Kanya Vivah Yojana’ for 15 months after coming to power in the State in December 2018,” Mr. Chouhan stated.
Besides, the Nath Government had additionally deserted a scheme below which monetary help was being given to poor women belonging to 3 scheduled tribe (ST) communities, he stated.
Mr. Chouhan stated the thought of ‘Ladli Behna Yojana’ for women’s empowerment struck him at 4 a.m. at some point, which he shared with his spouse.
The Chief Minister recalled he had witnessed the discrimination between the boy and woman little one in society and households and was pained at it.
He stated when he turned an MLA and M.P., he obtained women of poor households married, however the variety of such marriages was not too huge.
Mr. Chouhan stated he rolled out ‘Mukhyamantri Kanya Vivah Yojana’ (below which the federal government supplies monetary assist to married {couples} intending to finish the dowry menace) after he turned the Chief Minister (in November 2005), and the Ladli Laxmi Yojana for the woman little one to show her “lakhpati”.
Under the “Ladli Laxmi” scheme, ₹30,000 is deposited by the State Government on the beginning of a woman, adopted by extra instalments. “The beneficiary gets ₹1.18 lakh after she turns 30,” he added.
“Now a girl who secures first division marks in class 12 will get a Scooty instead of a bicycle,” Mr. Chouhan added.
He listed totally different schemes being run for women and women in M.P.
The Chief Minister stated the State Government has determined to shut down the ‘ahatas’ (dingy liquor bars close to booze shops) to make sure that women aren’t harassed.
“There will be no ahatas now [from the next fiscal],” Mr. Chouhan stated, referring to the State Excise Policy.
Citing the regulation enacted earlier by the State Government, Mr. Chouhan stated rapists will likely be hanged.
He requested the viewers whether or not they suppose that their brother [Mr. Chouhan] is doing good work, to which the women replied “yes”.
“Is the BJP Government good?… Tell me today will you all remain with us? We will work together. Will you help your brother?” he requested, once more drawing an affirmative response.
“Stand up, take a resolve jointly that [you] will join and walk with your brother. Will work together. Take a vow saying ‘we are with you [CM], with the BJP Government and that you will walk along so that the government remains and continues doing good work and takes M.P. to new heights’,” Mr. Chouhan stated amid cheering by the gang.
Through the ‘Mukhyamantri Ladli Behna Scheme’, the federal government goals to achieve out to at least one crore women within the State, the place Assembly polls are to be held on the finish of this 12 months.
A provision of ₹8,000 crore has been made for the scheme within the State Budget introduced within the Assembly lately.
“Potential beneficiaries can submit forms from March 15 to April 30. After scrutiny, a list of beneficiaries will be put out on May 1 and the final list on May 31. The beneficiaries will start receiving financial aid in their accounts from June 10 and every month thereafter,” Mr. Chouhan stated.
The variety of women voters in Madhya Pradesh is 2,60,23,733, and in at the least 18 of the 230 Assembly segments in M.P., they outnumber male voters. These embody tribal-dominated Balaghat, Mandla, Dindori, Alirajpur and Jhabua districts.
The variety of new women voters has gone up by 2.79%, whereas it’s 2.30% for male voters, officers stated. Of the 13.39 lakh new voters, 7.07 lakh are women, as per State officers.
