tmc: TMC announces Rs 5,000 per month cash transfer scheme for women in Goa ahead of Assembly polls

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday introduced to roll out a direct money switch scheme for girls in Goa whether it is voted to energy within the state after the Meeting polls due in February subsequent yr. Beneath the scheme titled Griha Laxmi, Rs 5,000 can be transferred to a lady of each family per 30 days as assured revenue assist to counter inflation as soon as the social gathering involves energy, TMC chief Mahua Moitra stated.

The social gathering would quickly begin distributing playing cards for the scheme, she stated, including that these playing cards carrying distinctive identification numbers would develop into operational as soon as the TMC kinds a authorities in Goa.

The Mamata Banerjee-led social gathering has introduced that it will be contesting all 40 seats in state.

“The ladies from 3.5 lakh households within the state can be lined beneath the Griha Laxmi scheme as it is going to additionally put off the utmost revenue ceiling, which is remitted within the present Griha Aadhar scheme of the BJP authorities within the state,” Moitra, who’s TMC’s Goa in-charge, stated.

She stated that the present scheme of the BJP authorities in Goa supplies solely Rs 1,500 per 30 days to girls and it covers only one.5 lakh households because of the revenue ceiling.

“The precise implementation of Griha Aadhar scheme requires Rs 270 crore yearly, however the Goa authorities has earmarked solely Rs 140 crore yearly due to which many individuals are usually not in a position to get the profit,” the TMC parliamentarian stated.

The projected expenditure for the TMC’s scheme can be six to eight per cent of the entire price range of Goa, she stated.

“Newest research have revealed that COVID-19 has shrunk the nation’s economic system, which must be revived,” Moitra added.

Earlier, the Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP), which will even contest the Goa polls, had introduced that it will improve the remuneration offered to girls within the coastal state beneath the state-sponsored scheme and in addition promised monetary help to girls not lined beneath it, whether it is voted to energy.

Throughout his latest go to to the state, AAP’s nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal had stated if his social gathering involves energy in Goa, then the prevailing remuneration of Rs 1,500 offered to girls beneath the Griha Aadhar scheme can be elevated to Rs 2,500, whereas different girls aged 18 and above, who are usually not lined beneath the scheme, can be paid Rs 1,000 per 30 days.

On Friday, Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who was on a day lengthy go to to Goa, had promised 30 per cent quota in jobs for girls in Goa if her social gathering got here to energy within the state. She had claimed that the ruling BJP’s ideology was “anti-women”, and requested folks to examine the track-record of the brand new events coming from “outdoors” the state.