Finance Minister Ajanta Neog flags off Orunudoi Month in Sonitpur district

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TEZPUR: Minister for Finance, Women and Child Development, etc., Ajanta Neog on Saturday ceremoniously launched the Financial Assistance of Rehabilitation Grant to flood-affected people through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) and also flagged off the Orunudoi month in Sonitpur district at a programme held at the new conference hall of the Deputy Commissioner's office.

A total of 767 families whose houses were damaged in this year's floods will receive Rehabilitation Grant (RG) as per SDRF norms. A total of Rs. 1,52,18,900 will be transferred to these beneficiaries centrally from the State government through DBT. Minister Ajanta Neog ceremoniously distributed cheques to five beneficiaries, one from each revenue circle of the district. Out of the 767 damaged houses there are 137 fully/ severely damaged houses, 12 partially damaged (pucca) houses, 440 partially damaged (kutcha) houses, 173 damaged huts and 2 damaged cattle sheds.

The Minister also flagged off the Orunudoi month, where students of various colleges and universities will verify the list of Orunudoi beneficiaries so that only genuine beneficiaries receive the benefits of this scheme. The house-to-house survey started on August 20 and will be completed by September 20. The process of exclusion of ineligible beneficiaries will be done between September 20 to 25 and final exclusion and deletion of excluded beneficiaries from the Orunudoi database will be done by October 1. The selected list of beneficiaries will receive an amount of Rs. 1250 from October 10 under this scheme.

Tezpur MLA Prithiraj Rava, Rangapara MLA Krishna Kamal Tanti, Deputy Commissioner Deba Kumar Mishra, Chairperson, Sonitpur Zilla Parishad, Dolly Surin were present in the programme.

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