About 5.38 lakh families in Uttarakhand will benefit under the Ayushman Bharat scheme. The State Government has decided to extend the benefit of this scheme to 20 lakh families, said Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat. He said this while speaking at a gathering of beneficiaries of various Central Government schemes held to mark four years of the National Democratic Alliance Government at the Centre.
Addressing the gathering in his constituency- Doiwala on Friday, Rawat said that the State Government has decided to expand the benefit of Ayushman Bharat and bring 20 lakh families under the purview of the scheme in Uttarakhand. The scheme will be launched from August 15 this year, he added.
Rawat said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had taken a pledge to make India corruption free. He had also set a target to build a ‘New India’ by the year 2022, in which everyone will get facilities like home and clean drinking water. Effective measures have been taken in the four years of NDA Government to step up execution of developmental works like provision of electricity connection to all homes. Under the Ujjwala Yojana, women from poor families are being provided free of cost lPG connections. On the appeal of the prime minister, as many as two crore people in the country have given-up lPG subsidy. Using this money, the poor are being provided with free of cost lPG connections.
In case of people who do not fulfill eligibility but have an annual income of less than Rs 2.5 lakh, the state government is providing free of cost lPG connections to them as well. Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, more than one lakh families would be provided affordable accommodation by year 2021. The Chief minister further said that the state government has taken concrete steps in the direction of fulfilling the target set by the prime minister to double the income of farmers by the year 2022. Under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Kisan Kalyan Yojana, loan of upto Rs one lakh is being disbursed at an interest rate of two per cent. He said that the ambit of the scheme will be extended if the desired results are achieved. Rawat further said that in order to double the income of farmers, the government has se the minimum support price for crops at about 1.5 times the production cost. Additionally, facilities like the soil health card scheme will help the farmers to get the correct information about the deficiencies in soil which in turn will enable them to increase their production by using proper fertilizer.
Reiterating the prime minister’s resolve to strengthen the nation, the chief minister exhorted the people to cooperate in the efforts aimed at achieving this.