SHILLONG, DEC 11: The Chief Minister’s Social Assistance Scheme has received a whopping 33,000 applications after a mobilization campaigns and enrollment drives were launched in different blocks of the state. The money for these beneficiaries have already been sanctioned for six months beginning June to December, 2014.
Chief Minister Mukul Sangma informed about the application that the government received during a programme organized by the social welfare department to distribute cheques to the beneficiaries under Chief Minister’s Wedding Assistance Scheme for the Orphan Girls and Chief Minister’s Social Assistance Scheme for the Infirm, Single Mothers and Persons with Disabilities at Ampati on Thursday.
The cheques were distributed by the chief minister along with the parliamentary secretaries WD Sangma and Limison D. Sangma, deputy commissioner Ram Singh, Social Welfare department director HM Shangpliang, local MDC N Koch and IGP Western Range H Nongpluh to the beneficiaries of
Betasing and Zikzak ICDS projects.
Packets of levy sugar were also distributed to the selected beneficiaries under Public Distribution Scheme (PDS) on the occasion.
Sangma said his government had started Wedding Assistance Scheme for poor orphan girls to enable them to have a decent married life with prospective partners according to the religious and social norms. “Although these benefits are small, it is a proof that government has not forgotten the infirm and the needy”, he added.
Regarding the levy sugar, the chief minister informed that about a couple of years back he had received complaints from some beneficiaries that the sugar issued to them had residues of cement in them and on enquiry it was found that the sugar had been brought in cement bags. Therefore the government has now directed that the levy sugar should be hygienically packaged to prevent pilferage before distributing to the beneficiaries at Rs. 13.50 per kg.
Sangma also warned the fair-price shop dealers not to sell the packets higher than the prescribed rate, saying the fair-price dealership is a social service and not a means for personal gain– By Our Reporter
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