‘Rs 3,000 per month to single mothers, one job in every household’, Congress promises in Meghalaya

‘Rs 3,000 per month to single mothers, one job in every household’, Congress promises in Meghalaya


Meghalaya Assembly Election 2023, Congress Manifesto: Ahead of the Meghalaya Assembly elections, on Thursday (February 9), the Congress, upon coming to power, announced a monthly assistance of Rs 3,000 to single mothers living below the poverty line (BPL) and a job for one member of each household. promised to give.

Meghalaya Assembly Election is to be held in this northeastern state on February 27, for which the Congress has released its election manifesto. The party has promised to provide uninterrupted power supply to commercial and domestic consumers and enact a law that will require all files related to development and infrastructure to be uploaded on the portal.

Meghalaya Congress chief Vincent Pala told the essentials of the manifesto

State Congress chief Vincent H Pala said, “If the Congress forms the government, it will give Rs 3,000 per month to single mothers to raise children. This will help in making women financially self-reliant and help them to run their household in a better way. This will be Rs 36,000 in a year which is a huge amount.”

Pala said, “Our youth are frustrated due to lack of good job opportunities in the state and they are forced to go to far-flung cities like New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata to earn a living. Our second commitment is to provide a job to a deserving candidate from every household in Meghalaya.” The Congress also promised that it would bring a transparency law.

Congress state in-charge Manish Chatrath targeted BJP

The party’s national general secretary and in-charge of Meghalaya Manish Chatrath said, “The Congress government brought the Right to Information Act to empower common citizens, but the (Narendra) Modi government at the Center and the NPP regime in the state have diluted the law in a phased manner.” and finally made it insignificant.

He said the new law would force the government to upload all files related to development and infrastructure on the portal six months after their closure, which would reduce corruption to a great extent and bring more transparency in governance. Let us inform that the Congress had lost power in 2018 at the hands of the NPP-led coalition.

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