Himachal CM pronounces sops, together with low cost for girls in buses, with an eye fixed on polls

Express News Service

CHANDIGARH: With an eye fixed on the meeting elections slated for November this 12 months, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Friday introduced a number of sops together with 125 items of free energy to all customers, no water expenses for folks dwelling in rural areas, and 50 p.c low cost to girls in bus journey, on the event of the seventy fifth Himachal Day on the state-level operate held at Chamba.

Addressing the gathering, Jai Ram Thakur introduced that every one customers, who use as much as 125 items of energy, won’t get payments from July 1 for as much as 125 items will likely be free. This would profit 11.5 lakh customers and would value the state to the tune of Rs 250 crores.  He additionally introduced that households dwelling in rural areas needn’t pay water expenses.  Further, girls travelling in state-owned Himachal Roadways Transport Corporation (HRTC) buses will get 50 p.c low cost.

Moreover, Thakur additionally introduced Rs 5 crore for expediting work on Holiuttarala highway and mini secretariat at Chamba Head Quarters to facilitate folks of the district. He introduced beautification and enchancment at Chamba city, in addition to taking steps to resolve the site visitors downside of Chamba city.

He mentioned that the state authorities is getting wanted help from the Centre in implementing growth tasks. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a particular attachment in direction of Himachal Pradesh and below his management, the state has received tasks price 1000’s of crores.

The state authorities, he claimed, has centered on bringing optimistic adjustments within the lives of the folks and making certain fast and balanced growth of the state. He recalled that the authorities in its very first cabinet assembly decreased the age standards for offering old-age pension from 80 years to 70 years with none earnings restrict, which has now additional been decreased to 60 years. As towards the Rs 436 crore spent on social safety pension as we speak greater than Rs 1,300 crore is being spent.

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He talked about the “unique initiative” of internet hosting Jan Manch for redressal of the grievances of the folks of the state at their doorstep. And up to now, 25 Jan Manch have been organized at 244 locations and out of 54,565 complaints obtained, greater than ninety p.c have been resolved.

He mentioned that `Mukhya Mantri Seva Sankalp Helpline-1100’ was launched by which an individual can register his grievance from any nook to get his points redressed inside a stipulated time interval. So far, about 3.55 lakh complaints have been obtained on this helpline quantity, out of which 3.41 lakh complaints have been settled, he added.

Thakur mentioned that the state authorities began the `HIMCARE’ scheme in January 2019 below which 5 members of the beneficiary household had been being offered free remedy facility as much as Rs 5 lakh per 12 months. He mentioned that up to now 5.40 lakh households have been registered below HIMCARE and a sum of Rs. 218 crore has been spent on cashless remedy of two.40 lakh sufferers. He mentioned that ‘Mukhya Mantri Sahara Yojana has been began to offer monetary help to the economically weaker sections affected by severe illnesses. Under this scheme, monetary help of Rs 3,000 is offered to them each month and to date Rs. 60.50 crore has been offered to about 18,000 beneficiaries below this scheme, he added.