Lakshmi Bhandar Scheme becomes superhit among all the Duare Sarkar projects of West Bengal Government. Image Courtesy – WebExam
The second phase of the state government’s ‘Duare Sarkar’ (Government at your doorstep) project camp has started from Monday. There are about 17,500 camps across the state. The Lakshmi Bhandar Scheme has been super hit on the first day of ‘Duare Sarkar’ (Government at your doorstep) camps.
Around 1.6 million applications have been received across the state for the ‘Duare Sarkar‘ (Government at your doorstep) camp. According to sources, more than 10 lakhs of them have been given land for the Lakshmi Bhandar Scheme. The Chief Minister and the higher officials of Nabanna are happy with the success of the new project.
What is the benefit of the scheme?
The West Bengal government has launched the ‘Lakshmi Bhandar Scheme’ in order to provide minimum income support to the female heads of the family. The WB government is going to provide Rs 500 per month to the families of the general category and Rs 1000 per month to SC/ST families. Around 1.6 crore families of West Bengal will be benefited from this scheme. This particular scheme has been launched to support the monthly average expenditure of a household in the state which is Rs 5249. This financial support will cover 10% to 20% of the monthly expenditure. This amount under this scheme will be directly deposited into the bank accounts of the beneficiaries.
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However, South 24 Parganas is ahead of the rest of the states on the first day in terms of the ‘Duare Sarkar’ application. Around 3 lakh applications have been submitted on the first day of this project in this district.
Lakshmi Bhandar Scheme has become the number one project in all ‘Duare Sarkar’ projects. Near about 1 lakh 71 thousand 633 applications have been submitted in this district. The project ‘Swasthya Sathi’ remains in second place. More than 40 thousand applications have been submitted under this project. The project ‘Caste Certificate’ remained in third place. Around 22 thousand 749 applications have been submitted under this project. The ‘Khadya Sathi Scheme’ remained in fourth place. More than 17 thousand applications have been submitted under this scheme on the first day. In addition, applications have been submitted in this district to get the benefit of multiple projects from 100 days of work.
The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government ensured the distribution and receipt of forms of the Lakshmi Bhandar Scheme in bulk at the Duare Sarkar camps started from August 16, 2021, Monday. The state government made it clear that political interference would not be entertained at the first mega public outreach after Mamata Banerjee returned to power for the third time.
The government officials told that instruction clearly indicated the government’s eagerness to ensure that no political party, including Trinamool Congress, could interfere in the project. The project would be completely operated by government officials.
