Bhubaneswar: Adding to the list of a chain of welfare programmes after his father Biju Patnaik’s name, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik made public two more pro-poor schemes in the state after the name of the legendary chief minister on Thursday.
The welfare programmes, christened as Biju Kandhamal Yojna and Biju Gajapati Yojna, would be on the lines of the Biju KBK Yojna.
“Like the Biju KBK Yojna, the two welfare schemes would be called as Biju Kandhamal Yojna and Biju Gajapati Yojna. The poor people in the two districts would be benefited under the programme. Bijli, Pani and Sadak (electricity, water and road) would be given prime importance in the programme,” Naveen said. He was here to inaugurate some welfare programmes in the district.
Naveen said he would write to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh urging him to launch similar Yojanas for the people of Kandhamal and Gajapati districts. He added that the state government's demands to include the two poverty stricken districts in poverty amelioration programmes were ignored by both NDA and UPA governments at the Centre.
The Biju Kandhamal Yojana and Biju Gajapati Yojana would be funded from the state's own resources and would work for electrification, roads, creation of water sources and livelihood schemes.
Under the new schemes the state government would spend Rs 1.5 crore per annum for each block of Kandhamal and Gajapati districts.
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