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Mysuru Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer S. Yukesh Kumar connected Thursday directed banks not to deduct Gruha Lakshmi Scheme funds towards indebtedness repayments, stating that beneficiaries indispensable person the assistance magnitude successful afloat connected humanitarian grounds.
Speaking astatine the District Guarantee Implementation Authority committee gathering held astatine the Zilla Panchayat, helium besides instructed officials to instantly halt Gruha Lakshmi payments successful cases wherever the beneficiaries had died.
Presiding implicit the meeting, District Guarantee Schemes Authority president Arun Kumar directed officials to guarantee that each eligible beneficiaries successful the territory person the benefits of the 5 warrant schemes.
Senior officials from the Women and Child Development Department clarified that income taxation payers are not eligible for the Gruha Lakshmi strategy nether existing rules. However, they said eligible beneficiaries who had been near retired would beryllium included.
Mr. Arun Kumar besides instructed the Food Department to wide publicise the reopening of the BPL paper exertion portal truthful that eligible applicants could apply, noting that BPL cards were indispensable for availing subsidised attraction and scanning facilities astatine hospitals.
He further directed transport authorities to instal RO drinking h2o units astatine autobus stands and show signboards informing passengers astir online summons outgo facilities successful KSRTC buses.
Authority vice-president Shivakumar expressed interest implicit payments continuing to beryllium made to deceased beneficiaries. He suggested adopting exertion to automatically halt payments erstwhile a beneficiary’s decease is registered and called for the betterment of funds already transferred aft their deaths.
Officials from the Food and Civil Supplies Department said that Mysuru territory has 6,80,301 ration cards, and astir 23,000 cards had been shifted from the BPL to the APL class arsenic the holders were income taxation payers oregon owned much than 7.5 hectares of land.
CESC Superintending Engineer Sunil said 9,68,228 beneficiaries had registered nether the Gruha Jyoti Scheme successful the district, portion 6,548 registrations were inactive pending. Around 60% of the beneficiaries person zero energy bills, portion the remaining 40% wage bills owed to depletion exceeding the prescribed mean limit, helium added.
