The State’s Social Welfare minister Yashpal Arya has directed the departmental secretary to conduct a review meeting of the departmental works on a monthly basis. Presiding over a departmental meet here on Wednesday, the minister said that the verification of all pensioners should be completed by the end of February.
He further directed the officials concerned to ensure wide-spread publicity so that the benefit of the schemes reaches the last person. Arya also expressed dissatisfaction at the set target not being achieved in distribution of prosthetic limbs. He said that a special campaign should be undertaken in this regard. It was also stated in the meeting that cent per cent of the scholarship for 2018-19 will be distributed by March this year. Further, cent per cent of the scholarship for financial year 2019-20 will be distributed by May 2020.
Officials also informed that the department is planning to increase the pension amount from Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,200. This pension amount is to be distributed on a monthly basis. At present, the bank accounts of 82 per cent beneficiaries have been made CBS enabled and soon cent per cent of the accounts will be made CBS enabled. The officials were also directed to send the requisition for all vacant posts. They were also directed to ensure that computers are installed in each block and that camps are organised block-wise. Secretary N Fenai, additional secretaries Ram Vilas and SC Joshi, Social Welfare director Vinod Giri Goswami, managing director BS Manral, additional director Yogendra Rawat and other officials concerned were also preset in meeting.