Jammu:Former Minister, Sat Sharma and local MLA from the Jammu West, Constituency distributed Gas Connections to the dozens of women folk under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjawala Yojana.
Former Minister was also accompanied by District President Jammu West Ayodhya Gupta, State Press Secretary Dr. Pardeep Mahotra and other local social and political activists during the gas distribution function. In a function, held at Gurudwara Taali Sahib, Talab Tillo,
Sat Sharma while addressing the beneficiaries said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has initiated numerous schemes for the benefit of the common masses keeping in view the persons who have been left out of the touch of basic amenities of life. He said that the inefficient policies and political will shown by earlier governments led to the development of wide gap between the rich and the poor and they kept large chunk of population under-privileged for their own selfish mottos.
Sharma also emphasized that the women form 50 percent of the total population and no society can think of surviving and advancing without ensuring women upliftment. He said that still after so many decades of the Indian Independence from the British, we have witnessed our women folk in many areas using the wood to fire the old time “Chulha”. He added that this adversely affects the health of women folk which forces them to inhale unlimited smoke.
Sat Sharma while giving details of the today’s programme, said that more than 3o families got the benefit of the free gas connections under the scheme. He said that 5 lakh, twenty nine thousands and three hundred women beneficiaries have been benefitted under present Ujjawala schemes in the state of Jammu & Kashmir. He said that now the limit of giving benefit to the needy families has been increased for meeting out the demand of every household with a vision to replace every single wooden chulha with the LPG gas stove.
Sharma said that BJP is working with a pious mission of giving life filled with dignity to each and every individual irrespective of caste, region, religion or gender and BJP will ensure this. He also prompted the local political and social activists to ensure the implementation of all Centre and State sponsored government schemes at the ground level by working extra hours.
Jeet Angral, Adv. Rajesh Gupta, Jaideep Sambyal, Veenu Khanna, Veena Gupta, Keshav Chopra, Asha Sharma, Kulbhushan Vohra, Dr. Dineshwar Sharma, Puneet Mahajan, Deepak Kumar, Yashpaul Shivgotra were also present during the distribution function.