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Himachal to redress general public grievances at doorsteps

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Saturday launched three ambitious schemes including ‘Jan Manch’ under which public meetings would be…

Himachal to redress general public grievances at doorsteps

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur launching various schemes on the completion of four years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government. (Photo: SNS)

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Saturday launched three ambitious schemes including ‘Jan Manch’ under which public meetings would be organised in each assembly constituency to redress people’s grievances at their doorsteps.

Thakur launched Jan Manch, Mukhya Mantri Swavlamban Yojana and Himachal Grihini Suvidha Yojana on the completion of four years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government.

“These schemes are bound to bring remarkable change in the lives of the people of the state,” he said.

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He said the Modi government has ensured that the nation gets a special place amongst the comity of nations and for that people of the country are extending full support to Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah.

The ‘Jan Manch’ scheme has been launched for prompt redressal of public grievances and it would not only ensure that the schemes launched for the welfare of the people were completed well in time. But also ensure that the desired results were achieved, he said.

The ‘Jan Manch’ would be organised Assembly constituency wise on first Sunday of every month and it would be ensured that this was organised in far-flung areas of that constituency so that people could get redressal of their grievances at doorsteps.

“Ministers and elected government representatives would ensure their presence in the meetings along with the officers of every department,” he said.

While Mukhya Mantri Swavlamban Yojana would provide self-employment opportunities to the youth between the age group of 18 to 35 years and they would get 25 percent investment subsidy for equipments on loan amount of Rs 40 lakh.

For women, this subsidy would be 30 percent and in addition, 5 percent interest subsidy would be provided for the period of three years, he added. He said that the ‘Himachal Grihini Suvidha Yojana’ was aimed at empowerment of women and environment conservation.

Under the scheme, women would be provided gas connections and it would ensure gas connections to all the households which have not been covered under the Ujjawala Scheme.

He said that a package of Rs 3,500 would be provided under this scheme which would include gas cylinder and gas stove. With this, Himachal Pradesh would become first state of the country with every household with smoke-free kitchen.

He said that effective publicity should be done regarding these schemes for ensuring that maximum people could be benefitted under these schemes
CM also interacted through video conference with the people of different parts of the state regarding redressal of their grievances.

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