Rs 1500 pm under Indira Samman Rashi for five lakh woman age group 18 to 50 yrs: Himachal CM Sukhu

Himachal Pradesh Chief minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu announced to release Rs 1500 per month to woman between age group of 18 years to 50 years under ‘Indira Gandhi Pyari Behna Sukh-Sammaan Nidhi Yojana’. Addressing a press conference here today he made this announcement.

Chief minister Sukhu said that the government had already started the first phase of the scheme from 1st February, 2024 as it was providing Rs. 1,500 to all the women of district Lahaul & Spiti and to all women of the state aged above 60 years. Around 5 lakh women were expected to benefit from the scheme and over Rs. 800 crore would be spent annually under the scheme.

Under the ‘Indira Gandhi Pyari Behna Sukh-Sammaan Nidhi Yojana’, the government will soon begin the process of filling the forms of all eligible women so that they could avail the benefits at the earliest.

He claimed that the government has already fulfilled its guarantees of providing Old Pension Scheme benefitting 1.36 lakh employees, Rs. 680 crore Rajiv Gandhi Start-up Scheme, starting of english medium from first class in all government schools, Minimum Support Price (MSP) for procurement of cow and buffalo milk and promoting natural farming by announcing the MSP for wheat and maize.

Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu announced that five lakh women would fill up the form from next financial year and Rs 100 Cr would has been provided in the state budget already.

He said that in last 14 months the State Government had fulfilled five guarantees now .