Jharkhand directs for publicity of Apke Dwar campaign

Doorstep delivery campaign to kickstart from Giridih

Ranchi, October 11: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren will kick off the second phase of his government’s ambitious outreach programme aimed at taking the government’s welfare schemes to the doorstep of beneficiaries from Giridih district on Wednesday, an official said.

Chief minister has directed that wide publicity is being given to the program of the first phase starting from October 12 so that people are aware through awareness chariots, through public amplifiers and microphone and pamphlet distribution, street plays in various panchayats.
 

To give information about the program, the state government is taking the help of street plays. People are getting information about the program and its benefits in their own language. Also, pamphlets related to various schemes are being distributed among the people. To ensure maximum participation of the people, awareness chariots are being flagged off.

The Chief Minister has directed the Deputy Commissioners of all the districts to ensure redressal of grievances and problems of the common people by establishing direct communication with the public through the programme.

The government has set a target to make the villagers aware of the welfare schemes of the government easily and easily and benefit from them. It is the priority of the government to get the benefits of the scheme on-the-spot by organizing camps at the panchayat level and accepting applications from the villagers and after checking them.

The programme, ‘Aapke Adhikar, Aapki Sarkar, Aapke Dwar’ (your rights, your government, at your door) will be conducted in two parts – from October 12 to October 22 and from November 1 to November 14, 2022, the official said on Tuesday.

The initiative is being organized to mark the completion of three years of the JMM-led Jharkhand government this December.

Soren said, “Jharkhand, which had been stuck for past 20 years, has started moving on. This is for the first time when officers are going to houses of beneficiaries to give them their rights. The programme has benefitted the rural people on a large scale.” The first phase of the initiative was launched by the chief minister on Statehood Day on November 15, 2021 and the government started holding camps for beneficiaries at the panchayat level from the next day.

In 2021, a total of 6,867 camps were organized and out of a total 35.94 lakh applications, 35.56 lakh applications were disposed of. Around 42,000 applications are under process, an official statement said.

The second phase is dedicated to the beneficiaries, who have been left out in the first phase. This time, the panchayats will be focused where camps could not be organized in the first phase, the statement said.

The initiative aims at processing applications related to welfare schemes on the spot so that villagers start receiving benefits at the earliest.

Under the programme, applications will be received under schemes like Jharkhand State Food Security Scheme for green ration cards, Savitribai Phule Kishori Samridhi Yojana, Chief Minister’s Livestock Development Scheme, Sarvajan Pension Yojana, Kisan Credit Card (KCC) and other schemes.