Maharashtra govt to appoint 50,000 youngsters for publicity of welfare schemes

Ahead of the assembly elections the Maharashtra government has decided to recruit 50000 young individuals to promote various government welfare schemes of both the state and Union governments reported news agency PTIThese Yojana doots will assist citizens in availing of the benefit of government welfare schemes Higher and Technical Education Minister Chandrakant Patil told the state legislative council in Mumbai reported PTIThe opposition however criticised the initiative denouncing it as a political campaign targeting the youthLeader of opposition Ambadas Danve raised concerns in the legislative council regarding the quality of skill development education in Maharashtra and questioned the governments decision to hire 50000 youths for publicity reported PTIIn reply minister Patil said that the state government has allocated Rs 5366 crore for ten polytechnics to establish Centres for Excellence aimed at promoting skill development and selfemployment Of the10 lakh youths set to receive six months of skillbased training with stipend 50000 individuals would be designated as Yojana doots to disseminate knowledge about government welfare schemes he said reported PTIMeanwhile the Maharashtra government tabled supplementary demands of Rs 9488946 crore in the state legislative assembly on Tuesday reported PTIDeputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar who holds the finance portfolio tabled these supplementary demands which are additional funds sought by the government over the budgetary allocationsPawar had presented Rs 612293 crore state budget on June 28 in which he announced several sops for women youths and farmers among other sections reported PTIThe supplementary demands include Rs 25000 crore for the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana Rs 5555 crore for the Youth Work Training Scheme Rs 2930 crore for providing free electricity to farmers for their agriculture pumps up to 75 horsepower reported PTIUnder the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana eligible women in the age group of 21 to 60 years will get a monthly allowance of Rs 1500 The scheme is aimed at ensuring overall development and empowerment of women including economic independence selfreliance health and nutritionAn amount of Rs 46000 crore will be made available every year for this scheme which will be implemented from July Pawar had announced while presenting the budget reported PTIThe agriculture pumps scheme will help 4406 lakh farmers and a provision of Rs 14761 crore will be made in the form of subsidy for the scheme reported PTIThe Mukhyamantri Yuva Karyaprashikshan Yojana is aimed at providing job training in industrial and nonindustrial establishments to 10 lakh youths every year It will help in creating employment opportunities for youths and make available trained manpower to industries Pawar had saidUnder the scheme each trainee will be given a stipend up to Rs 10000 per month by the government and it will entail an expenditure of around Rs 10000 croreWith inputs from PTI