3 BJP CMs poverty alleviation committee to submit report to Amit Shah

BHOPAL: The first BJP Nirdhan Varg Kalyan Samiti (Poverty Alleviation Committee) meeting to analyse and assess welfare schemes in party-ruled states was held here in the Madhya Pradesh capital on Monday under the leadership of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. CMs of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis and Jharkhand Raghubar Das, who are the other members of the committee came here on Monday morning to attend the meeting.BJP national vice-president Vinay Sahasrebuddhe officiated the discussions which took place at the chief minister’s official residence in 6, Shyamla Hills.
“This committee has been constituted to find ways that the poor no longer stays poor,” chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said. “We have been assigned the job to search for means and paths so the poor can become self-sufficient and live a better, more accomplished life. Their per capita income should increase and they find improved livelihood. Whatever could be the ways of poverty alleviation and eradication has been discussed in the meeting today with the sole objective that the poor and underprivileged no longer have to depend on anyone for their living,” the chief minister added.
On August 27, chief ministers of BJP-ruled states met in New Delhi for a conference chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It was here that Chouhan and the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Jharkhand were made the team to assess all ongoing welfare schemes in nine BJP-ruled states in the country. The objective was to see whether these schemes and policies are working at the grassroots level. To identify those welfare policies that have been successfully implemented and have been popular with the masses, especially in those states where the BJP have returned to power more than once. The poverty alleviation committee was asked to study the best and most popular schemes and prepare a report.
“A draft will be made of the discussions we have had today which will be presented before BJP national president Amit Shah. After the party president’s perusal, it will go to the Prime Minister. Later it will be discussed by the party at different forums to work-out a welfare agenda for the poor,” chief minister Chouhan said. Sources in the BJP central leadership said that the final report has to be submitted by the committee before Amit Shah at the party’s national council meeting scheduled for September 23 to 25 at Kozhikode, Kerala.
The BJP is looking for one or more popular schemes that can be nationally implemented by the Narendra Modi Centre. The erstwhile UPA-2 introduced the Central Food Security Act in 2013, a scheme that the Raman Singh BJP government in Chhattisgarh had implemented in 2008. BJP believes that its government in the states are running some of the best welfare schemes in the country like Ladli Laxmi Yojana and Teerth Darshan Yojana of Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh, the Universal Health Insurance Scheme of the Raman Singh government in Chhattisgarh or the Nanaji Deshmukh Housing Scheme of Gujarat.