CONRAD DIAS
Ranchi, April 19: The Jharkhand Government has made a provision of Rs. 500 crore under the ‘Sona Sobran Dhoti Sari Scheme’ to provide clothes at subsidised rate to provide benefit to the BPL holders of the state.
Under the scheme, the beneficiaries are provided dhoti/lungi and sari for Rs 10 twice a year. The government has set a target to benefit 57.11 lakh BPL families of the state under this scheme.
The state government has currently covered 56,49,817 eligible beneficiaries under the scheme. In the first phase of the scheme, 41,42,745 dhotis/lungi and saris have been distributed, out of which 34,29,817 dhotis, 53,47,787 saris and 19,11,909 were lungi.
Chief Minister Hemant Soren has directed the public representatives and officials to inform the villagers about this scheme and also ensured to provide them with benefits. Ration shopkeepers have been ordered to organise camps and distribute clothes, so that everyone can get the benefit of the scheme.
Under the ‘Sona-Sobran Dhoti-Sari Distribution Scheme’, all the eligible households and the beneficiary families of Antyodaya Anna Yojana in the state covered by the National Food Security Act, besides the beneficiary families of the Jharkhand State Food Security Scheme, should also be covered under the scheme.
The approval has been given in the meeting of the Council of Ministers. The maximum prescribed limit of beneficiaries under the Jharkhand State Food Security Scheme (JSFSS) is 15 lakh. At present there are 13,04,093 beneficiaries and 4, 38,989 families under the Jharkhand State Food Security Scheme.
As per the scheme, the number of families is likely to be 5,05,050. The maximum number of beneficiaries covered under the National Food Security Act is 2,64,25,385 under which the possible number of families is 5,89,7561.
