Haryana Government would prepare new schemes, especially for the welfare of deprived sections of the society and would also ensure that their benefit percolate to the grass root level.
Speaking at a function here, Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar said that earlier the people gave massive mandate in favour of BJP in the lok Sabha elections and now the people of Haryana have also shown faith in the party giving them the chance to serve the people.He said in response to the faith of the people, the State Government had raised the social security pensions including old age pension and widow pension from Rs1000 to Rs1200 per month with effect from January 1, next year.
Appreciating the role of media, Khattar said today the entire world had got transformed into a global village. With the help of media, people came to know about the latest news and happenings in no time, whereas, earlier news used to be transported from one place to another and that was a time consuming medium.
The Chief Minister said that sometimes the journalists also took risks while discharging their duties which was commendable and added that the investigative reporters had to work without any fear. He said that he would maintain a cordial relationship with journalists and news channels to ensure the all round development of the State.
Rabi crop arrangements
Haryana Agriculture Minister OP Dhankar has said that adequate quantity of manure and seeds for Rabi Crop would be made available to the farmers in Government stores and market.Redressing the grievances of people in his office at Haryana Civil Secretariat, Dhankar said that he has also sought the report of girdawari conducted to assess the damage caused to cotton crop recently. He said that adequate compensation would be given to the affected farmers.
The Minister said the present State Government is committed to ensure remunerative prices to the farmers for their crops including paddy and cotton. Blaming the previous Congress Government in the State for low prices of paddy, the Minister said that had the Congress Party not spread rumours about closing of paddy export; the farmers could not have suffered loss.
Dhankar said the State Government has decided that elders in the State would get enhanced pension by Rs 200 on January 1 every year for five years which is like a celebration for them. This honour to the elders is much more than what the Congress and INlD had promised.
He also welcomed the decision of Chief Minister to review as many as 115 decision made by the previous government and said that the decision taken in the public interest would not be withdrawn whereas the decision involving wasteful expenditure would not be allowed to continue.
No Aadhaar card
Haryana Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Kavita Jain on Thursday said beneficiaries of various social security pension were not required to produce Aadhaar Card while availing the benefit of these schemes. At present, the pension for the month of October 2014 is being disbursed in the month of November.
She said that it had come to the notice that the beneficiaries were being asked to produce Aadhaar Cards at the time of disbursement of pension. As a result of this there was sense of resentment among the beneficiaries.
Jain said that those beneficiaries who did not have the Aadhaar card would also be given the benefit of these pensions. Those beneficiaries who had not yet prepared their Aadhaar Cards, their cards would be got prepared by the Government in future at its own level.No beneficiary would be deprived off from pension benefit for the want of Aadhaar Card, she added.
The Minister said that a number of welfare schemes were being run by the department. These included old age allowance, widow pension, handicapped pension, financial assistance to destitute children, ladli social security allowance, allowance to dwarf and eunuch etc.At present over 22.26 lakh beneficiaries were getting pension and allowances under these schemes. She said that an amount of Rs220.94 crore has been released by the State Government for disbursement of pension or allowances for the month of October 2014.