Amaravati, June 23: Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has virtually launched the month-long Jagananna Suraksha programme to enroll all eligible left-over beneficiaries into welfare schemes and resolve people’s issues on the grievance-redressal platform Jaganannaku Chebudam.
Jagananna Suraksha, a massive public outreach programme, will cover 1.6crore families in 15,004 village and ward secretariats across the State facilitating the administration at the door step of every household. The massive exercise is aimed at reaching out to 5.3crore citizens.
Launching the programme from the Camp Office here on Friday, the Chief Minister said Jagananna Suraksha will handhold all left over eligible beneficiaries from the stage of enrollment to delivery of welfare benefits. It is especially aimed at extending Government services and welfare schemes to all eligible people, he said.
While Janmabhoomi Committees during the TDP rule harassed people seeking bribes for extending welfare benefits, we have been extending 600 types of services at the village level through secretariats transparently for the last four years, he stated, adding that eligibility only served as the criteria for extending the benefits.
So far, eligible people irrespective of caste, creed and political loyalties, have received welfare benefits worth Rs. 3.10 lakh crores through Navaratnalu including Rs. 2.16 lakh crores through DBT welfare schemes in full transparency ushering in real Grama Swaraj, he stated emphatically.
“98 to 99 % of the eligible people are receiving the welfare benefits. We are enrolling the left over people into the welfare schemes through bi-annual exercises in July and
December, Still, there may be some people uncovered for any reason even after grievance redressal through Jaganannaku Chebudam. All those grievances would be effectively addressed in Jagananna Suraksha,” he observed, adding that the Suraksha camps would be conducted at secretariat level in every Mandal from July 1.
Volunteers, secretariat conveners, Gruhasaradhulu, public representatives and other enthusiasts would visit the families from tomorrow and find out the details of people uncovered by the welfare schemes despite having eligibility.
Officials consisting of MPDO and Deputy Tahasildar in first team and Panchayat Raj EO and Tahasildar in the second team at Mandal level and Municipal Commissioner and his staff in the first team and Zonal Commissioner and his staff in the second team in urban areas would participate in the camps which would be supervised by District Collectors and other senior officers.
Describing the massive exercise of reaching out to the poor involving lakhs of officials and people’s representatives as unprecedented in the country, he further said that eligible people would be given required certificates and enrolled as beneficiaries in these camps. Senior officials and respective MLAs would personally attend the camps and coordinate the resolution of grievances.
The camps would also resolve people’s complaints on non-receipt of 11 types of certificates including those of marriage, birth, death, caste, income and ration cards.
Interacting with the Chief Minister virtually, District Collectors explained the steps being taken to conduct the outreach programme successfully. He directed them to make all arrangements at the camps so that people would not be inconvenienced.
Deputy Chief Minister (Panchayat Raj & Rural Development ) B. Mutyala Naidu, Revenue Minister D. Prasada Rao, Education Minister B, Satyanarayana, Municipal Administration Minister A.Suresh, Chief Secretary Dr K.S. Jawahar Reddy, DGP KVV Rajendranath Reddy, Special Chief Secretaries Ajay Jain (Housing) and Gopalakrishna Dwivedi (Agriculture), Civil Supplies Secretary H. Arun Kumar, CCLA Secretary Imtiaz, Housing Corporation MD Lakshmi Shah, Municipal Administration Commissioner P. Koteswara Rao, Panchayat Raj Commissioner A. Surya Kumari, Additional Director of village and ward secretariats Bhavana and other senior officials were present.
