CM Khattar launches ‘Sanjha Bazaar’ for self-help groups

Karnal, February 24

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Taking a significant step towards creating opportunities for economic and community development, as well as empowering women within self-help groups (SHGs), CM Manohar Lal Khattar launched the state’s first ‘Sanjha Bazaar’ in Karnal today.

He also laid the foundation stones of five projects related to the health sector worth Rs 820.92 crore from the auditorium of Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College (KCGMC).

These are — the second phase of KCGMC; a private ward at Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Health Sciences University, Kutail; third phase of Bhagat Phool Singh Government Medical College, Khanpur Kalan (Sonepat); a private ward complex at Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, PGIMS-Rohtak; and construction of Government Nursing College, Safidon (Jind).

“Women SHG members would find a platform to display and sell their products as a secure source of livelihood. Places have been identified for Sanjha Bazaar in six districts, as part of the first phase. Each bazaar will initially have 10 portable cabins. The rent for each will be only Rs 100 a day,” said the CM.

‘Secure source of livelihood’

Women SHG members would find a platform to display and sell their products as a secure source of livelihood. Places have been identified for Sanjha Bazaar in six districts, as part of the first phase. Each bazaar will initially have 10 portable cabins. —Manohar Lal Khattar, Haryana Chief Minister

CM Khattar said 58,000 groups with nearly 6 lakh members had been formed in the state. Among these six lakh women members, nearly a lakh have an annual income of less than Rs 1 lakh. “In the first phase, 500 women are being trained under the Centre’s ‘Drone Didi’ scheme,” he said. In Karnal district, there were 5,298 SHGs, with 57,175 women members, the highest in the state. Laying the stones of health sector projects, the CM said a medical college would be started in every district by 2030. “The healthcare sector is rapidly progressing. In 2015, the government decided to open medical colleges in every district to increase the number of doctors. So far, we have started medical colleges in 12 districts, while work on nine medical colleges is underway,” he said. In 2014, there were 750 MBBS seats in the state, which had now increased to 2,100. Today, the state needed 28,000 doctors.

The government’s effort was to provide one or two doctors in every village as per the population, he added.