Ahead of the Assembly election, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar connected Sunday announced a ₹25,000 one-time allowance for each ‘Vikas Mitra’ to acquisition tablets.
The ‘Vikas Mitras’ are colony volunteers tasked with taking authorities schemes to radical belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC) and the Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities. They are implicit 10,000 dispersed crossed assorted villages of the State.
Mr. Kumar said the ‘Vikas Mitra’ are playing a important relation successful enabling SCs and STs to avail themselves of the benefits of assorted improvement and payment schemes.
The CM said the National Democratic Alliance authorities successful the State is moving for the upliftment of deprived sections of nine by pursuing the rule of improvement with justice.
“Keeping this successful mind, it has been decided to supply a lump sum magnitude of ₹25,000 to each Vikas Mitra moving nether the Bihar Mahadalit Development Mission for the acquisition of tablets, truthful that they tin person convenience successful storing information of beneficiaries of assorted payment schemes and different tasks,” Mr. Kumar wrote connected X.
He besides announced an summation successful the proscription allowance for ‘Vikas Mitra’ from the existing ₹1,900 to ₹2,500 per month, arsenic good arsenic the stationery allowance from ₹900 to ₹1,500.
The CM besides allotted ₹10,000 to ‘Shiksha Sevaks’ and ‘Talimi Markaz’ — superior acquisition volunteers — for purchasing smartphones. They are tasked to assistance children from the Mahadalit, Dalit, minority, and highly backward classes successful acquisition and amended the women’s literacy rate. He said the authorities has besides decided to summation the teaching worldly allowance, from ₹3,405 to ₹6,000 per centre per year.
The decisions volition boost the morale of ‘Vikas Mitra’, ‘Shiksha Sevaks’ and ‘Talimi Markaz’ arsenic they execute their duties with greater enthusiasm and dedication, helium added.
