Modi’s ministers give away financial aid and gifts to beneficiaries of government schemes at public functions.
Garib Kalyan Mela for 2011 started on Thursday with 25 functions across the state. Ministers in Narendra Modi government visited the places assigned to them for the functions.
While the planning for the melas has been done with minute details, the state panchayat and rural development department has not been able to take the consolidated data of financial aids given to the beneficiaries. A top level official of the department said, “We don’t have a consolidated figure of how much aid has been distributed. The district places have not sent such data to us.”
This was not the case in 2010. As chief minister Modi himself was attending the functions, the figures were publicised, the official said. This year, as the CM is busy with his Sadbhavna fasts in various districts and might not be attending the melas, the organising agencies at district level do not show much interest.
However, on the first day, some places communicated the number of beneficiaries and value of aids given to them. At Tharad in Banaskantha district, 15,202 beneficiaries were given aids of worth Rs8.03 crore by minister of state for health Parbatbhai Patel, while state education minister Ramanlal Vora distributed aids worth Rs1.4 crore to 3,000 beneficiaries at Radhanpur in Patan district. Minister of state for education Jaysinh Chauhan distributed aids worth Rs39.11 crore to 10,816 beneficiaries.
Started in 2010, Garib Kalyan Mela is a public function where beneficiaries of various government schemes, including BPL and APL members, widows, students, farmers and tribals, are given away aids according to the provisions of government schemes.
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