A day before the visit of the prime minister narendra Modi to state capital the ruling Samajwadi party said the state government has taken series of measures for the uplift and financial assistance to the weavers of Varanasi—the lok Sabha constituency of Modi.
“Tall promises were made to the weavers of Varanasi during the last parliament election but nothing materialised on the ground. It was the Samajwadi party government which implemented schemes for the welfare of weavers like providing Rs 44 crores for the solar powered invertors for the weavers and provision in the budget for the payment of arrears of weavers with the UP Industrial cooperative Association, Kanpur’’, said the SP spokesman and political pension minister Rajendra Chowdhary here on Thursday.
Samajwadi Party also listed the measures taken by it to honour the memory of Dr BR Ambedkar to bring out its pro dalit credentials. Prime minister during his day ling visit to lucknow will visit the office of the Ambedkar Mahasabha and also Ambedkar University besides distributing e rickshaws.
“Contribution of party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav for honouring the memory of Dr Ambedkar can never be erased from the public memory. Mulayam Singh Yadav during his first stint as chief minister in 1990 had allotted the government bungalow for the office of Ambedkar Mahasabha while the chief minister has allotted land in CG city lucknow for the construction of a grand Ambedkar memorial’’, said Rajendra Chowdhary, adding that `` Mulayam Singh Yadav had also launched the Ambedkar gram vikas Yojna’’.
Targeting the flagship political plank of the prime minister, the SP leader said Akhilesh Yadav government has launched several schemes for providing employment to the unemployed youth.
`Not only thousands of youth have been given job in recruitment to government departments, jobless youth are being provided vocational training under skill development mission. Unskilled jobless youth are being short terms training in technical and non technical courses enabling them to find suitable employment. State government has also opened new polytechnics and a skill development and design center is being set up in Unnao district’’, said Rajendra Chowdhary.
On e rickshaws the SP leader said chief minister Akhilesh Yadav had distributed 259 rickshaws free to cost on January 15 and 100 rickshaws were given free by the CM on August 18 last year. He said the cost of each rickshaw is over Rs 1.37 lakh. He said for the protection of environment CM had also ordered the construction of cycle tracks in lucknow and Agra and he had also distributed thousands of cycles free of cost to the labourers.
On Poor and farmers. another plank of the prime minister, SP leader said the state government has taken important measures like pension for to help the poor, old age people and the farmers. This scheme will help nearly 43 lakh persons and the state government has provided Rs 1,613 crore in the budget for the current fiscal 2015-16. Besides this the government has also launched Samajwadi pension yojna which will benefit 45 lakh persons and a budget provision of Rs 2,727 crore has been made in the budget.
SP leader claimed that no state can match the performance of the UP government. “Many state government and the Central governments wants to copy the schemes being implemented by the Samajwadi party government’’, said the SP leader.