With Goa Assembly polls due next year, the BJP which is leading the state government today came out with a pamphlet claiming that various sections of the society got benefited due to the welfare schemes during its four years in office.
On Wednesday, the BJP-led government completed four years of its term in Goa. The government, then led by Manohar Parrikar, had been sworn in on March 9, 2012.
The party pamphlet, which carries photos of Parrikar, now the Defence Minister, and Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, states that the government has so far spent Rs 373 crore on its flagship Griha Aadhar scheme that provides Rs 1,200 monthly allowance to each housewife in the state.
"In the last four years, the Goa government has distributed Rs 373 crore under the Griha Aadhar scheme. Total 1.39 lakh housewives have been benefited due to the scheme which provides monthly allowance of Rs 1,200 each," it said.
It also claimed that 1.35 lakh people were benefited under Dayanand Social Security Scheme (DSSS). Under the scheme, senior citizens, widows and physically challenged people who are provided a specific monthly allowance.
Under the Ladli Laxmi Scheme, which aims at providing financial assistance to girls, as many as 40,000 girls and newly-wed women were benefited, which cost the government Rs 400 crore, it added.
The BJP has stated that 8,400 families affected due to closure of mining activity were given total Rs 137 crore since September 2015.
"Government earned Rs 816 crore from e-auction of 70 lakh tons of iron ore besides Rs 107 in the form of royalty on it," the ruling party said.
The pamphlet also claimed that farmers were encouraged through various schemes, which has resulted in increase in cultivation of farm products.
