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NEW DELHI: West Bengal main minister Suvendu Adhikari connected Monday announced the rollout of the projected “Annapurna Bhandaar” strategy successful the state, nether which eligible women whitethorn person Rs 3,000 per period straight into their slope accounts, arsenic the enactment promised up of polls.The determination was taken during the archetypal furniture gathering of the caller BJP authorities successful the state, chaired by Adhikari and attended by ministers and elder bureaucrats.The main curate said officials had been directed to instrumentality the strategy from June 1.According to the proposal, eligible women successful the authorities whitethorn person Rs 3,000 per period straight into their slope accounts.What is the Annapurna Bhandaar scheme?The Annapurna Bhandaar strategy is simply a women’s payment inaugural projected by the BJP successful West Bengal to regenerate the erstwhile Lakshmir Bhandar strategy introduced by the All India Trinamool Congress government.Under the projected scheme, eligible women successful the authorities whitethorn person Rs3,000 per period straight into their slope accounts, astir treble the magnitude provided nether the earlier strategy by TMC led authorities successful the state. The BJP had announced the strategy arsenic a cardinal predetermination committedness up of the West Bengal assembly polls.The strategy is aimed astatine providing fiscal enactment to women from debased and middle-income households. Under the earlier Lakshmir Bhandar scheme, women from the wide class received Rs1,500 per month, portion women from Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe households received Rs1,700 per month.
The announcement came alongside a bid of administrative and argumentation decisions taken by the caller authorities aft the BJP formed its archetypal authorities successful West Bengal.The meeting, chaired by Adhikari and attended by the 5 recently sworn-in ministers and elder bureaucrats, besides discussed borderline fencing, implementation of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and measures relating to amerciable immigration.Addressing a property league aft the meeting, Adhikari said West Bengal would present beryllium brought nether the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat wellness insurance strategy on with different flagship programmes. These see Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana for harvest insurance, PM SHRI Schools, and PM Vishwakarma aimed astatine supporting artisans and craftspeople.The authorities authorities besides announced the rollout of the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao strategy and Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana 3.0 for subsidised cooking state connections.The main curate besides said onshore would beryllium transferred to the Border Security Force for borderline fencing enactment and added that the contented of amerciable immigrants would beryllium resolved “in a fewer days”.The announcement comes days aft Adhikari took oath arsenic West Bengal’s ninth main curate connected Saturday, becoming the archetypal BJP person to caput the authorities authorities aft ending the All India Trinamool Congress’s 15-year rule.
