urban employment guarantee scheme rajasthan

Gehlot launches job guarantee scheme

Job cards issued to over 2.25 lakh people living in Rajasthan cities; 100-day employment guaranteed

10/09/2022 

An urban employment guarantee scheme -

1  was launched here on Friday for providing economic support to the poor and needy families living in the cities through work to be provided on demand for 100 days in a year.

2 More than 3.5 lakh people across the State have got themselves registered under the scheme and the job cards have been issued to 2.25 lakh of them.

3 Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot inaugurated the ambitious scheme, named after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi,

 by starting renovation work at the 18th Century Khania Ki Baori stepwell near Ambedkar Bhavan here 

अंबेडकर भवन के पास 18वीं सदी के खनिया की बावड़ी बावड़ी में जीर्णोद्धार कार्य शुरू कर पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री इंदिरा गांधी के नाम पर बनी महत्वाकांक्षी योजना का उद्घाटन किया

4 He termed the scheme historic, on the lines of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, as it would provide guaranteed work to the people in distress.

बजट में घोषणा

1 Mr. Gehlot had announced the launch of the scheme in his budget speech in the Assembly earlier this year, while making a provision of ₹800 crore in 2022-23. 

2 उम्र - Touted as the country’s biggest scheme to give jobs to the people residing in cities, it will provide work to the members aged 18 to 60 years in the job card holder families.

3 The State government has appointed committees at various levels for the scheme’s effective implementation.

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The scheme will provide employment in 

💐the segments of environment and water conservation, 

💐cleanliness and sanitation,

💐 stopping defacement of property,

💐 service-related works,

💐 convergence work and heritage conservation. 

💐The eligible people will get the works such as tree plantation, 

💐cleaning ponds, 

💐collecting garbage and catching stray animals.

Welfare schemes

1 At least 50 persons in each ward of urban local bodies will be given employment under the scheme. 

2 A Janaadhar card or its registration slip will be required for registration, which can be done at e-Mitra centres. 

3 The State government will reward the municipal bodies doing good work under the scheme.

Chiranjeevi Scheme

The Chief Minister also highlighted other welfare schemes of his government during the event. He said the medical treatment had been made completely free under the Chiranjeevi Scheme

Mahatma Gandhi English medium schools and regularisation of slum colonies

 while the initiatives such as the opening of the Mahatma Gandhi English medium schools and regularisation of slum colonies would benefit large sections of population in the State.

Source the hindu