State executive body meet of women’s Congress held at party’s state headquarters at Rajiv Bhawan here on Monday emphasised the need for joining the Suraji Gaon Yojana ‘Narva Garva Ghurva Badi’ (NGGB), which will generate employment for women.
The meeting was chaired by state president Phoolodevi Netam.
Phoolodevi addressing the meet underlined the need to make prosper villages so that the state could also develop.
By construction of Gauthans (cow sheds) and encouraging animal husbandry, production of milk and its byproducts have to be increased in villages, she said.
Similarly the use of cow dung as manure will increase fertility of fields and ultimately will help the farmers to prosper because of high yield of crops, she added.
Asserting that budget provisions have been made for NGGB by Bhupesh Baghel government, Phoolodevi further appealed the women cadre to publicize the scheme to villagers so that cooperation of all could be ascertained for the success of the project.
The NGGB has also been linked to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA) which will also generate employment for villagers, she said.
Citing that it was beginning of new academic session, she also urged the woman workers to ensure that no girl child dropout of schools.
The women’s Congress also thanked Baghel government for declaring general holiday on the occasion of ‘Haritalika Teej’.