Narendra Modi kicks off fourth round of Garib Kalyan Mela
April 12, 2012
Gandhinagar, 12 April 2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today kicked off the fourth round of ‘Garib Kalyan Mela’ through video conferencing. The government of Gujarat has so far organized 642 Garib Kalyan Mela delivering benefits worth Rs 8120 crore to 58.68 beneficiaries.
Speaking to 1.50 lakh beneficiaries through video conferencing, Shri Modi asked to take pledge “we don’t want to remain poor anymore.”
Modi said, “through 223 Garib kalyal mela this year, the government has raised a movement to give benefits worth Rs 1200 crore to 15 lakh beneficiaries directly and thus rescue them from middlemen.”
“In past poor people had to run pillar to post in search of government, but now government officers are searching beneficiaries to give them benefits.”
Modi announced Shramayogi scheme to uplift five poor families of each village to above poverty level.
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