Eligible beneficiaries should not be deprived of guarantee schemes’ benefits, says implementation authority
Arun Kumar, Mysuru district president of the Guarantee Schemes Implementation Authority, said here on Tuesday (July 21) that eligible beneficiaries should not be deprived of
Arun Kumar, Mysuru district president of the Guarantee Schemes Implementation Authority, said here on Tuesday (July 21) that eligible beneficiaries should not be deprived of the benefits of the State government’s guarantee schemes, and officials must ensure that those who qualify but remain excluded are enrolled without delay. Presiding over a district-level review meeting on the implementation of the schemes at the Mysuru Zilla Panchayat, Mr. Kumar directed officials to identify and remove deceased beneficiaries from the schemes while ensuring that all eligible citizens continue to receive benefits. Reviewing the Gruha Jyothi scheme, he said the ongoing beneficiary update exercise should be completed without excluding eligible consumers and instructed Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) officials to ensure meter readers conduct door-to-door visits to update beneficiary details and documentation.
On the Shakti scheme, he said women continue to avail the free bus travel facility without major issues, but directed KSRTC officials to improve services by ensuring buses stop at designated bus stops, constructing a bus bay in front of the Ilavala Police Station, increasing bus frequency in crowded areas, and operating additional buses during school and college hours. He also instructed officials to prevent irregularities in the Public Distribution System by ensuring accurate weight and quality of ration supplies. The Department of Skill Development and Livelihood has been asked to organise awareness programmes in colleges to encourage fresh registrations under the Yuva Nidhi scheme. Authority vice-president Shivakumar stressed the need to install transformers away from crowded areas and build protective fencing around them.
He also directed KSRTC to sensitise drivers and conductors on behaving courteously with passengers. Expressing concern over payments made under the Gruha Lakshmi scheme to deceased beneficiaries, he instructed officials to prevent such instances in the future and recover any payments credited after a beneficiary’s death from the respective families for remittance to the government. CESC engineer Sunil Kumar informed the meeting that Mysuru district has 9,81,299 eligible electricity consumers, of whom 9,73,321 have been enrolled under the Gruha Jyothi scheme, meaning 7,978 consumers are yet to register. He said meter readers are updating beneficiary details through house-to-house visits. The district has 50,985 transformers, he added. Nagaraju, Deputy Director of the Women and Child Development Department, said 34 instalments have been released under the Gruha Lakshmi scheme so far, with payments cleared up till the end of May.
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