6k kids given ‘Children of the State’ status: Pathania

While interacting with the gathering at Congress office in Rait on Sunday, Deputy Chief Whip of the Assembly and Shahpur Congress MLA Kewal Pathania said the state was continuously moving ahead on the path of development, and the government was making plans for the prosperity and empowerment of every section, so that the state could become self-reliant.

Pathania was distributing cheques amounting to Rs 3, 10, 200 for the treatment of poor people and marriages of poor women.

The state government had adopted 6,000 destitute children as ‘Children of the State’ under the Chief Minister Sukh Aashray Yojana, he added.

The MLA said state had become the first state in the country to make a separate law for the welfare of destitute children, including education.

Under this scheme, the entire cost of education of destitute children till the age of 27 years would be borne by the state government, he added.

He said the overall development of every panchayat of Shahpur was his priority, and his aim was to extend the benefits of the government’s welfare policies to the “person sitting in the last row”. At the Rait Congress office, Pathania listened to the grievances of people, and resolved most of them on the spot and directed the remaining to the departments concerned for immediate resolution.