Ranchi: Union minister and senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday released the party's manifesto for Jharkhand polls, promising job for at least one member of every below-poverty-line (BPL) family, if re-elected to power in the state. A slew of measures for the farmers, including a loan of up to Rs 3 lakh with easy repayment options.
It assured to provide financial assistance to school students hailing from backward and poor families.
Every student of Classes 9 and 10 will receive Rs 2,200 and that of Classes 11 and 12 Rs 7,500 as scholarships, said the manifesto, which was released by Prasad here, in the presence of Chief Minister Raghubar Das, Union Tribal Minister Arjun Munda and BJPs state unit president Laxman Gilua.
Contending that the incumbent BJP government has already given a bonus of Rs 185 per quintal of paddy, in addition to the existing minimum support price, the vision document said farmers would be given mobile handsets under e- NAM -- an online trading platform for agro commodities.
It also promised to provide Rs 5,000 to maximum number of farmers every year under the states Mukhya Mantri Krishi Ashirwad Yojana.
All farmers will be given loan of up to Rs 3 lakh with easy repayment options. The loan limit of cooperative committees will be hiked to Rs 200 crore, the document said.
The party, if voted to power again, would send a total of 5,000 farmers to foreign countries to study and learn about the modern farming technologies, it said.
On education, the manifesto promised to construct 70 new Eklayva Model Residential Schools.