griha lakshmi scheme

Announcing its first election promise, the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday said that if it wins the 2022 Goa assembly elections, it will roll-out an income support scheme to guarantee Rs 5,000 to every woman head of a household.

The Congress criticized Prime Minister Modi's new scheme providing Rs 10,000 to 75 lakh women in poll-bound Bihar, labeling it "vote revdi" and "vote chori." Congress leader Jairam Ramesh accused Modi of hypocrisy, highlighting his previous criticism of Karnataka's similar welfare scheme while now implementing one himself just before elections.

Announcing its first election promise, Trinamool Congress said on Saturday that if it wins the 2022 assembly elections, it will rollout a universal income support scheme to guarantee Rs 5,000 to every woman head of a household in the state.

Margao: Goa’s holistic development will be Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) target for the next five years if the party comes back to the power after the 2017 assembly elections, Union defence minister Manohar Parrikar said while addressing the BJP’s first ‘Vijay Sankalp’ public meeting at Curchorem on Saturday.

Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah will don the role of a bus conductor on June 11 to launch the 'Shakti' scheme, which offers free travel for women in state road transport corporation buses.

Following allegations of corruption in the selection of beneficiaries of Dalit Bandhu and 2BHK housing schemes, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is believed to have warned MLAs and leaders of not only denying the party ticket in the coming election but also expelling them from BRS.

Congress previously announced four guarantees — Griha Lakshmi (financial assistance to women head of families), Griha Jyoti (free electricity), Anna Bhagya (10kg of rice) and Yuva Nidhi Scheme (stipend for unemployed youth).

Rahul Gandhi announced in Vijayanagara that the Karnataka government will grant ownership rights to one lakh families, addressing the issue of land ownership without formal rights. He contrasted the Congress model of governance, which focuses on social welfare and direct financial assistance, with the BJP's approach.

Lakshmi is worshipped with lamps, and She visits illuminated homes during Deepawali in the month of Kartik, October-November, to bestow good luck and fortune, writes Satish K Kapoor

730 Workers In State For Poll Campaign

KOLKATA: 40-year old Narayan Shashtri and 19 year old Bibek Mukherjee are classmates in a unique school. The Purohit Paathshala on Haritaki Bagan Lane near Amherst Street, is provding hope for the unemployed who had for so long been contemplating nothing but a bleak future.