Jharkhand News: CM Champai Soren flags off 83 vehicles under Gram Gaadi Yojana
THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK Ranchi, February 21: Chief Minister Champai Soren flagged off 83 vehicles while launching the Mukhyamantri Gram Gaadi…
THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Ranchi, February 21: Chief Minister Champai Soren flagged off 83 vehicles while launching the Mukhyamantri Gram Gaadi Yojana today.
Soon, more than 250 vehicles will be in rural areas. The scheme has been launched to facilitate transportation of the rural regions from subdivisions to districts.
Speaking at a function held at Morhabadi ground, Soren said students, agitators, disabled, older people, widowed mothers and sisters will be able to travel for free in these vehicles operated under the Chief Minister Gram Gaadi Yojana, a brainchild of former Chief Minister Hemant Soren.
The chief minister said that by 2027, the government will provide three-room permanent houses to 20 lakh houseless families of the state under the Abua Awas Yojana.
He said that after three months, nine lakh eligible houseless families will be given the benefits of Abua Awas Yojana simultaneously.
He said Hemant Soren has felt the sorrow and pain of all the classes and communities of Jharkhand, including the indigenous people, tribals, Dalits, backward classes, and minorities, and schemes are being implemented as per the hopes, aspirations and needs of these classes and communities.
29 lakh Abu Awas Yojana applications
He said that more than 29 lakh Abu Awas Yojana applications were received in the camps organised under the Aapki Yojana, Aapki Sarkar, Aapke Dwar programme run under the leadership of Hemant Soren.
“The state government has approved the 20 lakh Abua Housing Scheme applications,” he added.
125 MW free power
The chief minister said that our government will now provide up to 125 units of free electricity to the people of Jharkhand.
“Earlier, under the leadership of former Chief Minister Hemant Soren, our government provided 100 units of electricity free of cost. Taking forward the thinking of former Chief Minister Hemant Soren, our government has decided that now 125 units of electricity will be made available to the state’s people free of cost,” he said.
15,000 km of roads
The chief minister said that the state government is constructing 15 thousand kilometres of roads in various areas of Jharkhand.
“Our government’s vision is to lay a network of good roads to connect the rural areas to the block and district headquarters,” he said.
