Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Saturday, said that the pension of the destitute women would be increased from Rs 1,000 per month in future.
Addressing a gathering at Tiranga Maidan in Auraiya after gifting the district with 145 development projects worth Rs 688 crore, the chief minister said that without giving respect to half the population, the value of development plans remained incomplete.
“No society can be self-reliant and strong unless half of its population is leading a secure and dignified life. Keeping this in mind, the prime minister dedicated the first session of the new Parliament building to women power by giving top priority to the Nari Shakti Vandan Act. According to the Act, one-third seats will be reserved for women in the Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha,” he remarked.
Yogi also mentioned that under the Chief Minister Kanya Sumangala Yojana also, the government had decided to increase the amount from Rs 15,000 to Rs 25,000 from the next financial year. The amount is given to support a girl child right from her birth to her graduation.
The chief minister added, “The double-engine government has decided that if the financial condition of a family is not good then the government will take the responsibility of the girl child. Arrangements have been made to provide two uniforms, shoes, socks, bags, books and sweaters to the children studying in Basic Education Council schools. Along with the registration, Rs 1,200 are transferred to the family’s account.”
The chief minister said that people who promoted family-based politics in the name of casteism were depriving the common people of development projects. “We have not committed the sin of creating social divisions based on caste, family, region or language,” he added.
Yogi further said that all the programmes during Vijayadashami were peaceful. He said before 2017, festivals used to bring apprehensions, but after six and a half years, festivals were being celebrated with enthusiasm. He said more than 50,000 idols were installed in the districts but there was no chaos at any place.
Chief Minister Yogi said that this year’s Diwali would be very auspicious, because from this day every house and place of worship in the state would participate in the festival of lights.
“This programme should continue until Lord Shri Ram is seated in his grand temple. The construction work of the magnificent temple is underway in Ayodhya,” he said.
“As soon as this programme will be completed with the blessings of the prime minister on January 22, from the next day we are going to make arrangements to take Ram devotees from the districts for darshan there,” Yogi added.
On this occasion, Bharatiya Janata Party Mahila Morcha state president and Rajya Sabha member Geeta Shakya, Women and Child Development Minister Baby Rani Maurya, Minister in-charge of Auraiya Dr Sanjay Nishad, Etawah MP Dr Ramshankar Katheria, Kannauj MP Subrat Pathak, MLA Gudiya Katheria, BJP regional president Prakash Pal and others were present.