Jalandhar, November 23, 2017: Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC), Jalandhar, Dr Bhupinder Pal Singh on Thursday informed that the Punjab government has decided to include debt ridden farmers and unemployed youth along with 16 other categories for availing the benefits of Mahatma Gandhi Sarbat Vikas Yojna (MGSVY).
At the review meeting of officials at Shahpur campus of CT Group of Institutions , the ADC said that besides the debt ridden farmers, families with woman as head of family, the families who have lost their only bread earner, families with members suffering from serious ailments like cancer, families of Army martyrs, kin of freedom fighters, homeless families, school dropout children, families with specially able children, distressed old age people, drug addicts, families in problem due to natural disasters, unemployed youth above 18 years, children with malnutrition, sanitary workers, orphan children, transgender, acid attack victims,families living in slums and other would be eligible for the benefits of scheme.
To avail the scheme's benefits, the income of family must not be above Rs 60,000 annually. Moreover, the applicant family should not possess more than 2.5 acre of land, he said adding the beneficiaries must be resident of the state.
The Additional Deputy Commissioner said that for identification of the eligible beneficiaries under the scheme committees have been constituted to conduct door-to-door survey. He said that the committee would include Guardian of Governance, Panchayat Secretary and one social worker of the village. Dr. Bhupinder Pal Singh said that in case GoG was not available an official has been appointed in his place by the Deputy Commissioner.
The ADC asked the officers/ officials to complete the work of survey regarding this by the end of this year so that a consolidated list could be compiled for it. He said that the complete list of the eligible beneficiaries would be uploaded on the website of the district administration.
Those present included Sub-Divisional Magistrates Rajeev Verma and Navneet Kaur Bal, District Guidance Counselor Surjit Lal and Vice-Chairman of the CT Group Harpreet Singh Channi.