Women should take maximum benefit of the welfare schemes: Spalzes Angmo
Leh, June 27, 2010 The un-employed women of Ladakh especially the women from weaker sections of the society should know about the various women welfare schemes sponsored by both the State and Central govts and should take maximum benefit from the schemes.
This was stated by Mrs. Spalzes Angmo, Member Minority Commission, Govt. of India on June 25 at Leh in a meeting with the women representatives from different localities of Leh town. The meeting was also attended by the officers from Social Welfare Department, ICDS, Handicrafts, Handlooms, Consumers Affairs and Public Distribution etc.
The main objective of this meeting was to make the women of Leh district well aware about different schemes meant for them and to encourage the women self help groups and individuals for availing the benefit from these schemes.
Mrs. Spalzes Angmo said that Ladakh is a tribal and minority concentrated area and therefore, national level criteria on availing benefit from most of the schemes are not applicable in Ladakh. She felt the need to make flexibility in the regulation of some important women welfare schemes so that maximum deserving women from Ladakh could get the benefit of the schemes. She strongly urged for maximum publicity of various welfare schemes among the general masses through Radio and Doordarshan in order to make the people conversant about the schemes.
Mrs. Spalzes emphasized the people to extend their utmost cooperation in identifying the most deserving families and individuals who genuinely deserve to cover under welfare schemes.
With threadbare deliberation and constructive criticism, the meeting urged upon the women folk to come forward in potential fields and adopt most suitable trades like handicrafts, handloom, fruit and vegetable processing etc to make themselves self-reliant and economically empowered.
During the meeting, the women representatives were made aware about schemes like subsidized financial assistance for setting up of income generating units in handicrafts, handlooms and other potential businesses. Other important schemes such as old age pension, pension for widows and divorcees, pension for physically challenged persons, financial assistance for treatment of poor patients also highlighted in the meeting.
The criterion of BPL ration and its admissibility was extensively highlighted in the meeting. The AD, CAPD, Miss Ruth Merry briefed that Leh district had previously 8259 families under BPL and after making meticulous verification, the numbers of BPL beneficiaries has now come down to 6235 families. Some of the women representatives registered compliant in the meeting that many un-deserved families in Leh district are availing the BPL benefit while as so many deserved families and individuals are deprived of the privilege of BPL. IDL
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