After launching inflation relief camps at Jaipur district’s Mahapura village panchayat on April 24, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is making whirlwind tours to all districts in Rajasthan to ensure success of the camps, in which the citizens are being linked with as many as 10 public welfare schemes of the State government. Mr. Gehlot is likely to cover all the districts by mid-May.
The camps, being organised in all towns and villages across the State, were introduced as a novel concept to extend the benefits of schemes to the people and publicise the Congress government’s achievements. Mr. Gehlot is keen to increase the number of beneficiaries following the Congress high command’s subtle signals that this year’s Assembly election will be fought based on the welfare measures.
Two of the schemes have caught the attention of policy makers in other States, while Mr. Gehlot has urged the Centre to consider implementing them at the national level. They are the Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme with a cover of Rs. 25 lakh per annum, forming part of the right to health, and the supply of LPG cylinders to poor households at the subsidised price of Rs. 500 each.
