While addressing a gathering on the occasion of Nachni Mahotsav in Nachni on Wednesday, Chief Minister Harish Rawat said that his Government has been running several schemes for the welfare of women involving the women self-help groups (SHG).
“Women are being promoted in dairy production and agricultural work while being given financial assistance for the promotion of traditional crops like paddy, Mandua, Kala Bhatt, Gaderi, Choulai and Ramdana,” he said, adding that the State was carving a name for itself as the place where the women were marching ahead in terms of development.
He also mentioned myriad schemes rolled out by his Government to uplift the people of the State. “We are giving several pensions meant for several categories of people. Things on the front of development are encouraging with the per capita income going up by leaps and bounds,” he said.
Dwelling on his pet women empowerment initiatives, CM said that Talla Jouhar self-finance cooperatives would be set up to promote around 1,000 women. “The State Government would give them each `2,100 by way of cash assistance,” he said.
He asked the cooperative president to provide him with a list of the women beneficiaries so that the state government could deposit money in their bank accounts.
Referring to the lT posts lying vacant in the inter college, CM said that they had already filled 70 per cent posts and the remaining would be filled soon. He said that State would organise adventure sports in Munsyari as part of tourism promotion. He also announced Rs one lakh cash assistance for Nachni Mahotsav committee.
Speaking of Uttarakhand marching apace, CM said it is one of the six States which are fast growing. “Before 2012 , there were only 1.8 lakh pensioners. Now it has shot up to 7.13 lakh. We must take pride in the fact,” he said.
Earlier, Uttarakhand Forest Development Corporation chairman Harish Dhami inaugurated the Mahotsav. In his address Dhami apprised the people about the development works undertaken during his tenure.