Payments below the schemes will attain beneficiaries on the tenth of each month, Himanta Sarma mentioned (File)
Guwahati:
Assam on Thursday launched welfare schemes for kids orphaned by Covid and those that have misplaced their partner to the virus, with Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma aiming to inoculate your entire state earlier than August 15.
Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday introduced two main welfare schemes for orphaned youngsters and people widowed on account of COVID-19.
Mr Sarma, throughout a media interplay marking the completion of 1 month of his taking cost because the chief minister, spoke in regards to the state’s COVID-19 vaccination drive and struggle towards medicine amongst different issues.
Thursday marked the initiation of the Mukhya Mantri Sishu Seva Yojana below which 11 youngsters who had been orphaned on account of Covid, obtained a monetary help of Rs 3,500 for this month and a set deposit of Rs 7,81,200 towards which, they’ll get Rs 3,500 month-to-month from subsequent month until they’re 24 years previous. They have additionally been given a laptop computer every.
“After the age of 24, they will get the principal amount too. Verification is going on and soon the other children will also receive the benefit under the scheme that covers those orphaned with family support and without family support,” Mr Sarma mentioned after formally handing over the cheques in Guwahati.
Under the scheme, these widowed on account of COVID-19, will probably be given a one time monetary help of Rs 2.5 lakh whereas Rs 1,130 — Rs 830 from Arunoday Scheme and Rs 300 from window pension scheme — will probably be given each month.
The Chief Minister’s Relief Fund has obtained Rs 118 crore in donation from corporates like Reliance and Tata, Mr Sarma mentioned.
“Of the total money received, Rs 50 crore has been spent to procure vaccines while the rest was used for the two schemes,” he mentioned.
The Chief Minister mentioned that every one the funds below the welfare schemes, each latest and current ones, will probably be despatched to the beneficiaries on the tenth of each month.
After the Centre stepped in to provide vaccines to the state governments from June 21, Assam has saved about Rs 650 crore that was earmarked for procuring vaccines, he additional mentioned.
He additionally added that there is a trace from the Centre that Assam could obtain 3.5 lakh vacancies every day earlier than July 1 and if that occurs, Assam will be capable of inoculate the entire state earlier than August 15; a minimum of with the primary dose of the vaccine.
“Currently, we are focussing our vaccination more on epicentres which are in the A-6 cities — Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Tezpurz, Cachar and Nagaon — to contain its contamination,” Mr Sarma mentioned.
On the continuing anti-drugs marketing campaign the place state police has cracked down on drug peddlers, Himanta Biswa Sarma mentioned Assam has within the final one month have recovered narcotics price round Rs 24 crores of which, heroin was price Rs 7.89 crore, marijuana was price Rs 6.1 crore, unprescribed medicine had been price Rs 9.02 crore together with cough syrups, opium, and morphine.
