Sonia gandhi Flags Loss Of Finances In Key Govt Scheme In Rajya Sabha Congress Parliamentary party (CPP) leader Sonia gandhi on wednesday said the narendra modi government's flagship program for pregnant girls, Pradhan Mantri Vandana Yojna (PMMVY), is "severely below-funded" and has ended in a drastic fall in entitlements to beneficiaries.
Flagging the difficulty inside the rajya sabha, gandhi stated the countrywide meals security Act (NFSA) was exceeded by parliament in 2013 below the leadership of manmohan singh in september 2013, and it's been the muse for PM Gharib kalyan Yojna (PMGKY), which changed into released throughout Covid 19 to provide food grains to poor families. PMGKY presently has eighty-one crore beneficiaries.
She said NFSA also includes ₹6,000 per child as a maternity entitlement for pregnant girls in casual areas, and PMMVY was released in 2017 to fulfill this entitlement. But, she added, PMMVY gives the handiest ₹5,000 for the first infant; this is extended to the second infant if it's a woman.
"In line with one knowledgeable analysis in yr 2022-23, only 68% of ladies acquired at least one installment in the course of the first beginning. But the very next year, this percentage fell considerably to simply around 12%. I would love to invite the Union authorities to ask why this turned into being allowed to occur," gandhi said.
She additionally puzzled over the absence of a separate price range for PMMVY.
"The overall implementation of the maternity provisions of NFSA 2013 requires an annual finance of ₹12,000 crore. It's far more surprising that the budget record does not now contain data on the allocations for the PMMMVY one after the other. All that the well-known file shows is that there may be a program referred to as Samarthya inside the WCD (ladies and toddler development) ministry. This has 5 components, of which PMMVY is one. The allocation in 25-26 for Samarthya is a handy ₹2,521 cr. This in reality shows that PMMVY is significantly underfunded," Gandhi.
That is the fourth time gandhi has flagged key coverage troubles within the rajya sabha at some stage in the ongoing session. On march 18, she raised "subject over the dilution of employment guarantee under MGNREGA (Mahatma gandhi countrywide Rural Employment Guarantee Act)."
Flagging the difficulty inside the rajya sabha, gandhi stated the countrywide meals security Act (NFSA) was exceeded by parliament in 2013 below the leadership of manmohan singh in september 2013, and it's been the muse for PM Gharib kalyan Yojna (PMGKY), which changed into released throughout Covid 19 to provide food grains to poor families. PMGKY presently has eighty-one crore beneficiaries.
She said NFSA also includes ₹6,000 per child as a maternity entitlement for pregnant girls in casual areas, and PMMVY was released in 2017 to fulfill this entitlement. But, she added, PMMVY gives the handiest ₹5,000 for the first infant; this is extended to the second infant if it's a woman.
"In line with one knowledgeable analysis in yr 2022-23, only 68% of ladies acquired at least one installment in the course of the first beginning. But the very next year, this percentage fell considerably to simply around 12%. I would love to invite the Union authorities to ask why this turned into being allowed to occur," gandhi said.
She additionally puzzled over the absence of a separate price range for PMMVY.
"The overall implementation of the maternity provisions of NFSA 2013 requires an annual finance of ₹12,000 crore. It's far more surprising that the budget record does not now contain data on the allocations for the PMMMVY one after the other. All that the well-known file shows is that there may be a program referred to as Samarthya inside the WCD (ladies and toddler development) ministry. This has 5 components, of which PMMVY is one. The allocation in 25-26 for Samarthya is a handy ₹2,521 cr. This in reality shows that PMMVY is significantly underfunded," Gandhi.
That is the fourth time gandhi has flagged key coverage troubles within the rajya sabha at some stage in the ongoing session. On march 18, she raised "subject over the dilution of employment guarantee under MGNREGA (Mahatma gandhi countrywide Rural Employment Guarantee Act)."