Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. , Photo Credit: AM Farooqui
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that his government will launch a new scheme to provide ₹1,000 per month to women from economically poor backgrounds in the state, where assembly elections are due later this year.
While addressing a program on the banks of river Narmada in Narmadapuram city on Saturday evening, Shri Chouhan said that Rs.60 thousand crore will be spent on this scheme in five years.
“We will start Laadli Bahna Yojana on the lines of Laadli Laxmi Yojana for poor women of all classes from lower and middle class. Our sisters will be given an amount of Rs 1,000 per month i.e. Rs 12,000 per year.
Shri Chouhan said that poor women of all classes can get the benefit of this scheme, even if they are getting the benefit of other welfare schemes.
“I have to make my sisters financially strong. If they are strong then the family will be strong. If the family is strong then the society will be strong. If the society is strong then the state will be strong,” he said.
The CM also announced plans to build Narmada Corridor and Narmada Lok on the lines of Mahakal Lok at Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain.
Shri Chouhan and his wife Sadhna Singh offered prayers on the banks of Narmada on the occasion of Narmada Jayanti on Saturday.
The state assembly elections are due in November this year.