PM to launch ‘Bima Sakhi’ scheme from Panipat today

The stage is all set to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Sector 13/17 of the textile city - Panipat - on Monday. The PM will launch the 'Bima Sakhi' scheme of the LIC for empowering women from here.

On January 22, 2015, PM Modi had launched the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ scheme from Panipat to save girl child and improve the skewed sex ratio.

All roads near the venue are adorned with the hoardings of the Prime Minister, Chief Minister and other BJP leaders. Around 5,000 hoardings with the photographs of PM Modi and CM Saini have been put up along roads.

Deputy Commissioner Virender Kumar Dahiya said all preparations had been done. The PM would launch the ‘Bima Sakhi’ scheme from Panipat on Monday. Thousands of women from all districts of the state would reach here to participate in the programme.

Under the scheme, one lakh women from across the country would be made LIC agents, of which 8,000 would be from Haryana. Under the scheme, women agents would be trained and a sum of Rs 7,000 per month would be given to them in the first year, Rs 6,000 in the second year and Rs 5,000 in the third year.

Arrangements for potable water, toilets and parking facilities have been made for women at the venue, the DC said.

The Prime Minister would stay in Panipat for around one and a half hours. He would also inaugurate the new campus of Maharana Pratap Agriculture University of Karnal from here.

ADGP CID Alok Mittal, along with ADGP Law and Order Mamta Singh, IG Karnal range Kulwinder SIngh, DIG Pankaj Nain, SP CID Ajit Singh Shekhawat, SP Lokender Singh and KP Yadav, AIG, SPG, visited the venue on Sunday and reviewed the security arrangements.

Though managements of most of the schools have declared leave for students on Monday, the district administration has not declared any leave.