Vijayawada: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy will visit Markapuram of Prakasam district on Wednesday and transfer the YSR EBC Nestham funds into the beneficiary accounts.
The CM will lay the foundation stones for various development works and address a public meeting at SVKP Degree College Grounds. He is crediting the financial assistance of Rs 658.60 crore to 4,39,068 bank accounts of eligible poor women from the Reddy, Kamma, Arya Vaishya, Brahmin, Kshatriya, Velama and other OC communities across the state. The Chief Minister would do so with the click of a button in Markapuram.
Explaining the motto of YSR EBC Nestham, the CM said, "Life stories of women are as glorious as the biographies of the legendary men. I strongly believe that the well-being of the family is directly dependent on the well-being of the women in each household. The smiles on their faces reflect the happiness of their families. I desire that every woman in the state become self-reliant and prosperous.”
Reeling out the Jagan Mohan Reddy government’s assistance to the poor parents to educate their children, the officials said that the government is offering a financial assistance to perform marriages through "YSR Kalyanamasthu" for the girls belonging to SC, ST, BC, Minorities, Disabled, as also the construction worker families and for the girls of Muslim Minority communities through the YSR Shaadi Tohfa.
They said registration of house sites and houses in the name of women has been carried out to empower women. The state government so far distributed 30.76 lakh house sites and is constructing over 22 lakh houses. Each woman would benefit with an asset worth Rs 5,00,000 to Rs 10,00,000.
