28,007 Barnala residents get MGSVY benefits

Tribune News Service

Barnala, January 22

Around 28,007 residents have been given benefits under the Mahatma Gandhi Sarbat Vikas Yojna (MGSVY) scheme, an umbrella scheme of the Central and state governments, by the Barnala administration. As many as 7,553 applications are under process at various levels in respective departments for proper verification of the applicants.

As per information, the district administration had recently organised a district-level camp at Government Senior Secondary School, Shehna, and around 1,400 applications were received during the camp. Around 338 applicants were found eligible out of which 131 were assisted on the spot and 1,037 applications were sent for further verification to various departments to check the eligibility of applicants for availing benefits of various government schemes.

Till date, as many as 28,007 beneficiaries have been assisted under MGSVY.

“Our officers are taking all the required steps to help all residents avail maximum benefits of the MGSVY scheme,” said Barnala Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dharam Pal Gupta.

The DC further informed that the main purpose of the scheme was to provide benefits of welfare schemes for debt-ridden farmers, poor families that have a woman as the sole bread earner, families of AIDS patients, out-of-school children, martyred soldiers, differently-abled, abandoned old persons, drug addicts, among others. Only those persons are covered under the scheme whose annual income is less than Rs 60,000 or those who have less than 2.5 acres of land.