congress: Replicate Rajasthan govt’s Pension, urban job schemes: Congress to Centre, states

The All India Congress Committee (AICC) has requested the Centre and state governments to copy the Rajasthan authorities’s resolution to revive the pre-2004 state-funded pension scheme for presidency workers. The Congress management additionally hailed the brand new City Employment Assure scheme introduced within the latest state funds by the Ashok Gehlot authorities as an city model of the MGNREGA, including that this needs to be adopted by different governments as nicely.

After the AICC name, the occasion circles indicated that the Congress authorities in Chhattisgarh might undertake the Rajasthan mannequin.

AICC normal secretary incharge for Rajasthan, Ajay Maken, stated on the media briefing right here on Friday that the Gehlot authorities has taken a historic resolution by reviving the pension scheme, which was carried out away by the Vajpayee regime. “The staff ought to perceive that the Congress occasion has all the time protected their pursuits and one more instance of that is Ashok Gehlot Ji’s resolution in Rajasthan,” he stated.

Maken recalled how the Vajpayee regime had carried out away with the state-funded pension scheme and changed it with the present contributory pension scheme by which workers contribute from their wage for the pension.

Maken additionally stated the Gehlot authorities’s Indira Gandhi City Employment Assure Scheme, which has been allotted ₹800 crore for city employment assure for 100 days per 12 months, demonstrated the dedication of the state authorities and the Congress occasion to the welfare of the city poor.