Centre to consult Jakhar for welfare schemes in Punjab
Saturday, 03/11/2012
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CHANDIGARH: Union Cabinet Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ajay Maken has assured Punjab CLP leader Sunil Jakhar that he will be taken in confidence while finalizing the center funded welfare schemes for the state in future. Jakhar has sought consent of concerned ministers to monitor progress of the schemes funded by the Central government in Punjab.
Jakhar shared his findings as chairman of the party flagship programme monitoring committee with the union minister during a meeting that was held despite of week-end holiday today.
He apprised Ajay Maken of slow pace in implementation of schemes aimed to benefit dalit communities by the SAD-BJP alliance govt in Punjab. Speaking about the Swaran Jyanti Shehari Rozgar Yojna the Abohar legislator told the union minister that Punjab was released Rs 20 crore in 2011-12 under the scheme but did not pass on its benefit to unemployed youths resulting in aggravation in discontent.
The state govt has been apathetic in implementing the Integrated Housing and Slum Area development scheme also. Funds under the Rajiv Awas Yojna were siphoned off through political workers of the ruling alliance at the cost of eligible beneficiaries.
The state govt has not responded to requests for sharing the information on the implementation of center funded welfare schemes with the Leader of the opposition in the state Assembly, he regretted.
Jakhar pleaded that 30 percent of the total population in Punjab belonged to dalit sections; they should be given better attention while drafting the next budget proposals.
