Gujarat tops the list of states in implementation of 20 point poverty reduction programme

Gandhiangar: Gujarat has continuously for second year stood first among all states in 20 point poverty reduction programme implementation as per the March 2016 final progress report published by Government of India’s Statistics and Programme Implementation ministry. Gujarat has achieved over 100% success and stood first as per this report.

Gujarat government spokespersons and ministers Shri Nitin Patel and Saurabh Patel said Gujarat had stood first with over 100% achievement of targets in year 2015-16 too. They said this is another success for Gujarat government after achieving first rank among all states in Ease of Doing Index.

They said twenty point programme was introduced by then Prime Minister who was from Congress. Their targets are decided by central government for each state government. For last many years, Congress and left ruled states have ignored proper implementation of this poor oriented programme, while BJP ruled state Gujarat has given priority to poor oriented programmes and their implementation and achieved first place. In employment guarantee programme, Gujarat has given employment to 2,71,000 persons and paid Rs 306 crore 19 lakh 4,000 wages.

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