Adampur (Jalandhar): Chief minister Bhagwant Mann launched the registration direction of for the mighty-anticipated Mukh Mantri Mawan Dheeyan Satkar Yojana at Adampur for the length of a impart-stage feature marking the a hundred and thirty fifth start anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar on Tuesday.
Addressing a gathering largely comprising females, Mann introduced that the principle portion of registration has launched in nine assembly segments: Adampur, Dirba, Sunam, Moga, Malout, Patiala Rural, Kotkapura, Batala, and Anandpur Sahib. Beneath the design, beneficiaries above the age of 18 will bring collectively ₹1,000 a month, whereas these from the Scheduled Caste community will bring collectively ₹1,500 monthly.
Mann said that by initiating this direction of, the Aam Aadmi Event-led executive has fulfilled its well-known promise to empower females at some level of the impart thru command monetary help. He said that 26,000 registration centres were residing up at some level of Punjab and that the statewide direction of will begin soon. Reassuring folk about the design’s sustainability, he said a right budget has been earmarked and great funds will be found for implementation. He pushed apart opposition criticism, arguing that critics failed to attain how important these funds are for females from impoverished backgrounds. Mann framed the initiative as a system of returning the general public’s money to them thru improved successfully being, education, and civic facilities.
AAP Punjab affairs in-fee Manish Sisodia said the registration direction of below the design will seemingly be carried out interior two months at some level of the impart. “The beneficiaries will open getting the amount from July onwards. It is no longer about the amount, the design is aimed at making females financially impartial,” he said.
The initiating marks the culmination of a campaign “guarantee” made by AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal earlier than the 2022 assembly elections. Four years later, the Bhagwant Mann executive formally introduced the cash switch design in its 2026-27 Budget on March 8, coinciding with World Females’s Day.
An outlay of ₹9,300 crore has been earmarked for the unusual fiscal. Primarily basically based on the April 2 notification, all females aged 18 and above who’re registered voters with accurate Aadhaar and Punjab voter ID cards are eligible, and not using a restriction on the series of eligible females per family. Current social security pensioners are moreover entitled to avail of the design as successfully as to their unusual pensions.
Then again, the executive has excluded several categories from the profit, including typical or retired staff of the Punjab, central, or varied impart governments, as successfully as these from public sector undertakings, boards, corporations, and cooperative establishments. Furthermore, participants who paid profits tax of ₹1 or extra within the final monetary twelve months, and serving or outdated ministers, MPs, and MLAs, are ineligible. To bring collectively certain delicate statewide implementation, the Punjab executive has already constituted a excessive-stage committee headed by the executive secretary to oversee the framework and operational choices.
