Gujarat CM distributes over 2,500 ‘Ma-Vatsalya’ cards

Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat

Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel today said that Gujarat Government is providing assistance of Rs.70-crore on ‘Ma-Vatsalya’ Yojna for the treatment of poor families suffering from serious diseases.

Speaking at a function to mark distribution of ‘Ma-Vatsalya’ cards to over 2,500 needy women and other events here, she said this compassionate scheme is for mothers and girls and children under-21 belonging to families below the poverty line earning less than Rs.1.20-lakh per annum, to ensure the poor did not die for want of treatment.

She described cleanliness as one of the basic civic amenities. She called for creating awareness and inculcating habits for cleanliness from childhood, arranging functions at schools it being the responsibility of the respective school management. Dirtiness spread disease; cleanliness should be matter of habit.

Mrs. Patel inaugurated Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)’s 14th Fire Station at Thaltej built at a cost of Rs.10-crore to serve the western zone, and also Ambli primary school and the renovated Sola primary school. She honoured Shantaba for bearing the cost of school’s renovation and other donors for providing computers.

She launched the online file tracking software installed at the Ahmedabad Collectorate. It is aimed at solving the people’s problems online. She wished the software is installed in all the district towns.

Those present on the occasion included Ahmedabad Mayor Meenaxiben Patel, MLAs Babubhai J. Patel, Arvind Patel and Nirmalaben Wadhwani, Collector Rajkumar Beniwal and DDO Udit Agrawal, among others.

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