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Loans given to women in Bundelkhand HT
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Nandini R Iyer, Hindustan Times
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Nowgong (Madhya Pradesh), May 15, 2010
First Published: 00:50 IST(15/5/2010)
Last Updated: 00:53 IST(15/5/2010)
To encourage women in drought-hit Bundelkhand to use their artisan skills to generate income, the Rashtriya Mahila Kosh has embarked on an awareness programme in the area.
The RMK, an autonomous body under the ministry of women and child development, has sanctioned about Rs 1.15 crore to seven non-governmental agencies in Bundelkhand.
Kicking off the first phase by distributing loan cheques, Union Minister of State for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath told an audience of rural women how there would be a market in Delhi and other cities for their work.
"You make baskets from cane and grass but with a little bit of training you can use the same materials to make light weight furniture that would be a hit in larger cities," the minister said.
The programme will initially cover 3,000 women whose skills in handicraft and food processing will be developed, through training and support.
UP seeks more Central package funds on Bundelkhand .
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Lucknow, May 14 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh government today said it has got Rs 332 crores of the Rs 1595 crores additional central aid (ACA) which is a part of the Centre's special package for drought-hit Bundelkhand region.
"The state has not got any additional help due to the Bundelkhand package announced by the Centre," State Chief Secretary Atul Kumar Gupta said.
He alleged that the state has got only Rs 332 crores of the additional central aid (ACA) and requested for quick release of the remaining amount besides the Rs. 471 crores of the MNREGS which was due.
Over Rs 1595 crores ACA in the package would have come to the state, he said.
Three years on, Mayawati counts virtues of BSP rule
Indo-Asian News Service
Not more than one per cent of the state's budget had been spent on memorials to Dalit icons, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati said on Thursday, adding that three years of her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government had led to an environment free of terror, crime, injustice and corruption.
Addressing a press conference to mark three years of BSP rule in the state, Mayawati staunchly defended the construction of memorials and statues to herself and Dalit icons.
"Yes, I have built memorials and statues to commemorate the rich contribution of such personalities who had done yeoman social service and reforms, but their work never received due recognition in successive Congress governments or the other regimes."
Justifying the allocation of more than Rs 6, 000 crore towards these memorials, she asserted: "Whatever I have spent each year towards commemoration of these icons was not more than one percent of the state's annual budget."
Extolling the virtues of her three-year rule, Mayawati told a crowded press conference: "What my government has achieved over a period of three years, since we rode on to power entirely on our own strength, cannot be matched by any other political party that has ever remained in power in the state."
She said there was "utter jungle raj" when the BSP assumed office in May 2007.
"And I am proud of the fact that in three years, I have been able to create a terror-free, fear-free, crime-free, injustice-free and corruption-free environment by putting the law of the land back on the rails."
In her view, her government "could have done wonders" had the central government extended cooperation in adequately sharing the cost of various development programmes.
Training her guns at the central government, she said it had deprived the state of Rs 17, 000 crores, "the state's legitimate share towards various schemes already carried out over the past three years".
Focussing on the Congress-led government's "conspiracy" against her regime, Mayawati recalled how New Delhi had not paid any attention to her repeated demand for a special economic package of Rs 80, 000 crores for the uplift of Bundelkhand and Purvanchal.
"The central government had even gone to the extent of violating the provisions of an order of the country's apex court, that had clearly ruled in 2005 that the centre would have to bear the entire financial burden of programmes initiated by it in states.
"The recent decision of the central government on right to education was a point in that very regard; and even as the UPA regime decided to insure free education across the country, it failed to make corresponding financial provisions for it," the chief minister added.
In a sharp deviation from the past practice, Mayawati did not hold a big bash on her government's third anniversary. But senior bureaucrats, police officials and the media were treated to a sumptuous lunch.
Cong hits back at Mayawati for attacking UPA
New Delhi, May 13 (PTI) Congress today hit back at Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati for charging the UPA with adopting step-motherly and discriminatory attitude towards the state, saying she was making the allegations only to hide her failure.
"The Centre gave more money and help to UP as compared to other states. A special package was given to Bundelkhand also.
She is making the allegations to hide her failure," party spokesman Shakeel Ahmed told reporters here.
On the occasion of the BSP government completing three years in office, the chief minister alleged that "negative" attitude adopted by the central government smacked of conspiracy against her government
