Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said the government’s guarantee schemes have reached over 4.6 crore people in the State, and with that, the purchasing power of the people strengthened.
He was addressing a convention of beneficiaries of guarantee schemes in Chikkamagaluru on Sunday. In Chikkamgaluru district alone, women had utilised the benefit of free travel under the Shakti scheme over 1.52 crore times, which incurred an expenditure of over ₹55 crore. Besides that, the number of people visiting the pilgrimage centres also increased in the State with the effective implementation of the scheme.
Similarly, 2.95 lakh families were getting the benefit of Gruhajyothi, 2.41 lakh families were getting Anna Bhagya, 2.44 lakh women were getting ₹2,000 every month under Gruha Lakshmi, and 2,657 youth had enrolled in the Yuva Nidhi scheme. The government had been spending ₹486.86 crore to reach these benefits to the beneficiaries in the district, he said.
