DTo mark Raksha Bandhan slated for Saturday, the State Government has paid `12 premium on behalf of some beneficiaries as regards Prime Minister Suraksha Bima Yojana on Friday. “We are determined to enroll more and more people under this policy,” said the Chief Minister Harish Rawat while presiding over the function held at his residence in Dehradun on Friday.
“Our goal is to provide cover of this policy to all the eligible persons of the State by next month. To motivate people, we have launched a scheme for the self- help group (SHG), Mahila Mangal Dal (MMD) and social organisations/individuals.
Under this scheme, the motivator will get `10 per policy holder as reward from the State Government. For this, we have appointed women empowerment department as nodal officer and asked the district magistrates to implement at their own levels,” he said.
“We are stressing on women being made nominees of the policy. If there is no woman nominee left only then we should opt for male nominees. Otherwise, the stress must be on the women all through,” CM said.
He further said now premiums are being paid for the beneficiaries at the level of the Chief Minister and other officials. “But later we would bring the issue before cabinet. We might go for budgetary provision to have annual premiums paid for all the beneficiaries from Government account,” he said.
CM also announced that whosever MMD or women help group (WHG) will become first by adding highest number of policy holders will get `1 lakh cash reward and second prize will be given to four groups and each will be rewarded with `50,000 cash reward and eight WHG will be rewarded each `25,000. This prize money will be disbursed from CMRF
laying stress on plantation drive, he said Rakshabandhan should be used as an occasion to pump fresh life in the drive. “We have distributed 1/5 saplings to many of our sisters. Initially, we have allocated 1000 saplings in each of 13 districts of the state. In the plains, we are giving guava saplings while in the Hills, we are giving malta. In places located over 2500 feet and more, we are giving lemon saplings,” he said.