Camp to find genuine MGSVY beneficiaries tomorrow

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, June 18

For the identification of eligible beneficiaries who can avail maximum benefits of the Punjab Government’s welfare schemes, the district administration would be organising a district-level camp under Mahatma Gandhi Sarbat Vikas Yojana (MGSVY) at Jasmine Palace, Jagraon Road, Sidhwan Bet, on June 20.

Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner Pradeep Kumar Agrawal said this camp would be attended by various government departments, including Welfare, Water Supply and Sanitation, Rural Development and Panchayats, PSPCL, Labour, Industries, Lead Bank, Health and Family Welfare, Food and Civil Supplies, Employment Generation and Training, Social Security and Women and Child Development, School Education. He said these departments would identify the eligible beneficiaries and fill their forms on the spot so that maximum number of people can avail of the benefits of government welfare schemes.

Agrawal appealed to the residents to attend this camp in large numbers. While providing further details, the Deputy Commissioner said this scheme was aimed at the inclusive growth of the distressed sections of society. “It will be on the line of Antyodaya principles (Antyodaya’ means rise of the last person) and will be implemented in the state’s rural areas. MGSVY aims to translate the vision of inclusive development of the state into a reality by ensuring equitable access to benefits of all socio-economic development schemes for those who have been deprived of such benefits. Though a large number of welfare schemes have been going on for years, there are a large number of poor and distressed households to whom the benefits of these schemes have not reached. The goal of MGSVY is to identify such people and ensure that they get due benefits under various government schemes and programmes within 30 days.

He further added that people who could avail benefits under MGSVY include farmers who had committed suicide because of debt, family whose family members had died and the household expenses were running, family member whose family was suffering from AIDS or cancer-related illnesses, families of martyrs who were going through financial difficulties after being martyred, whose children did not go to school, family of freedom fighters, homeless families, people suffering from intoxication, families suffering from natural disaster, unemployed people over 18-year-old, orphan, third gender and beggars, parents giving birth at home, acid sufferers etc.