Chandigarh, March 12: While reiterating state government’s commitment to uplift the poorest of the poor in the spirit of Antyodaya Haryana Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal who also holds the portfolio of Finance Minister while presenting the State Budget for the year 2021-22 during the ongoing Budget session of Haryana Vidhan Sabha announced a new scheme ‘Mukhyamantri Antyodaya Utthan Abhiyan’.
The Abhiyan aims to draw verified data from the Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) and identify the poorest one lakh families in the State. Under this Abhiyan, the Government aims for economic upliftment of two lakh families in the financial year 2021-22, informed the Chief Minister.
He said that under this a package of measures from education, skill development, wage employment, self employment and job creation will be adopted and tailored to each family to ensure their economic upliftment so as to reach a minimum economic threshold of Rs 1.80 lakh per annum.
State Aims that no family in the State is living below the poverty line by 2025
The Chief Minister said that once these one lakh families are successfully uplifted, and then the Government will identify the next lot of poorest one lakh families and work for their economic upliftment. Through this Abhiyan our aim is that no family in the State lives below the poverty line by 2025, said the Chief Minister.
He said that the Mukhyamantri Antyodaya Utthan Abhiyan will be an umbrella mission encompassing all schemes of Government to identify the scheme or set of schemes to supplement the upliftment of each identified family. Each Department of Government will prioritize schemes implemented by them for the upliftment of the identified poorest families.
The Government’s strategy is to comprehensively cover these families at the lowest end of the socio economic ladder, and extend the coverage to the next set of one lakh families, and gradually expand coverage to all the vulnerable sections of the society, informed the Chief Minister.
Focus on implementation
The Chief Minister said that it is important to improve governance and delivery of services to ensure that the benefits accruing from these projects are well targeted to intended beneficiaries. A pioneering initiative of Parivar Pehchan Patra launched last year has made rapid strides and has achieved comprehensive coverage.
He said that this initiative will go a long way in improving the ‘Ease of Living’ of citizens of the State, by targeting ‘paperless’, ‘faceless’ service delivery to citizens. It will help in achieving citizen convenience and good governance in the State.
“Our strategy for implementation is guided by principles of Antyodaya – of serving and uplifting the last person first. Taking a leaf from the successful aspirational district programme of the Government of India, we intend to adopt an aspirational block approach to augur comprehensive and transformative development to focus on the least developed blocks of the State and focus on their development,” informed the Chief Minister.