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Union Minister S.P. Singh Baghel interacts with citizens on Central schemes across Meghalaya

Prof. S.P. Singh Baghel, Minister of State for Law & Justice, Government of India, on Thursday, undertook field visit and interacted with citizens and some of implementing Centres

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SHILLONG: Prof. S.P. Singh Baghel, Minister of State for Law & Justice, Government of India, on Thursday, undertook field visit and interacted with citizens and some of implementing Centres which are either beneficiaries or recipients of various Central Schemes that includes Corona Vaccination Centres, Health Insurances, among others; and to find out how the citizens are deriving them and getting benefited from these Schemes.

He was accompanied by the officers of the Line Departments/ Agencies implementing the Central Scheme.

The Minister has also obtained and assessed the overall feedbacks from the beneficiaries of various schemes and also from the implementing officials. The followings are the several sites/schemes that the Minister of State for Law & Justice, visited within the Shillong town area.

He visited the Health Dispensary at Rynjah, Shillong in the presence of officials, doctors, and nurses of the Dispensary about the Covid vaccination centres and the beneficiaries of the Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY. There is no complaint whatsoever from the patients who are coming for treatment. A separate section for treatment is being kept for level 1 Covid patients and level 2 patients in the Dispensary.

The Minister thereafter visited one of the beneficiaries of the MHIS (State Scheme), at R & R Colony (Rynjah, Shillong) and had a brief interaction. House visit to one of the beneficiaries of the MHIS (State Scheme).

Then he visited the beneficiaries of 'Swach Bharat Mission' at Umpling, Shillong.

The Minister also visited the residences of the beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjawala Scheme(PMUY) at Nongmensong, Shillong where he interacted with them.

He also visited the house at Umpling of one of the beneficiaries under Prime Minister AwasYojana (PMAY) Urban Meghalaya. During the interaction with the beneficiary. She expressed her concern about the scheme as she had only received Rs. 60,000.00 out of Rs. 1,50,000.00. She was happy to be included in the scheme of PMAY and looked forward to receiving the remaining amount. Her total cost of building the house is Rs. 7.00 lakh.

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