News courtesy: Andhra Jyothi
Hyderabad, Feb 13 : The Rachabanda Programme (Village Junction) launched by the Andhra Pradesh government on January 24 seeking to reach out to people across the state completed on Saturday with good success.
The programme saw participation by Union Ministers, State ministers, MPs, MLAs, District Collectors besides the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy who together disbursed benefits under various government schemes to lakhs of people, an official press note said.
The Chief Minister covered various parts of the state between January 24 and February 10. His scheduled visits to Kadapa and Nellore on February 11 and 12 had to be cancelled due to the model of conduct which came into force on account of MLC polls in these districts, the release said.
Giving details, the release said that during the course of the rachbanda programme in all 4.59 lakh temporary ration cards were issued, 1.31 lakh pensions were sanctioned, 2.96 lakh women were brought under the Abhayashastham scheme across the state.
Besides 2.64 lakh beneficiaries were issued sanction letters and 1.73 lakh beneficiaries were issued patta/Possession certificates for housing.
There were 3 lakh Arogyasri cards and 1.79 lakh job cards issued afresh under the NREGA scheme.
As far as financial sanctions are concerned, Rs 283 crore were disbursed under Pavala vaddi (Rural) and Rs 75.23 crore under Pavala vaddi (Urban) to 1,38,663 SHG groups, the release said.
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