Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Friday gifted ‘Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana’ (PMSMY) benefits to 3,000 women to mark Deen Dayal Upadhaya’s Jayanti celebration here.
During a function organised at Anugraha Narayan Bhawan in Baghbera, Das personally handed over certificates to 10 women beneficiaries. A total of five banks had put up camps to disburse schemes among the beneficiaries.
Das said that the idea to provide poor and less privileged class of the society with the welfare schemes being launched by the Union and State Governments.
“We are working in the direction to ensure that the image of mineral-abundant Jharkhand is not tarnished and develop it as number one State of the country,” he said. The Chief Minister said that the State is rich with mineral resources and its optimum utilsation is the need of the hour.
State housing board will be providing houses to all homeless in different categories in the next five years.
Das said the Government would work efficiently in bringing speedy development, providing basic amenities and improving policing. Speaking on the occasion, Raghubar Das said that going by the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide homes to all homeless by 2022 the state government has decided to provide houses to homeless in three categories by 2020.
“We will be making provision in 2016-17 wherein state housing board will be providing house to all homeless by 2020 both in rural and urban areas,” said Das.
Announcing sops for BPl families and poor villagers employed in MGNREGS projects, the Chief Minister said that the state will launch a campaign from October 11 to provide social security pensions for BPl individuals and poor villagers working in MGNREGS projects in the State.
“The social security pensions scheme will be launched at Koderma on October 11, to mark the Jai Prakash Narayan jayanti while different ministers will be simultaneously launching the scheme at different districts on the same day providing insurance cover up to Rs 50 lakh. The cost of the insurance premium will be borne by the Government,” said Das.
He also said that in the 2016-17 budget the State Government is planning to provide widow pensions to all. Earlier, the CM offered apologies to the gathering on behalf of the district BJP unit for making shabby arrangements at the venue of the program.
Prior to this party workers offered tribute to Deen Dayal. The programme was attended by State, District, Morcha, office bearers and other active workers.