May 7, 2010

Rs. 4.98 cr. disbursed under Agriculture Workers' Scheme

As many as 4,690 people benefited under the State Government's Agriculture Workers' Protection Scheme to the tune of Rs. 4.98 crore for the past one year, Collector V.K. Shanmugam has said.

A review meeting was held at the Collectorate recently. Presiding over the meeting, Mr. Shanmugam scrutinised the applications received for various assistance such as marriage assistance, compensation for natural death and accidents and old-age pension etc.

Applications

The applications received from the agriculture workers were scrutinised block-wise by the Collector and the action taken on the applications was taken up for review at the meeting.

During the meeting, Mr. Shanmugam said that under the marriage assistance of the members Rs. 7.43 lakh was disbursed to 187 persons, for the marriages of sons and daughters Rs. 47.68 lakh to 1164 persons, for natural death and last rites Rs. 2.07 crore to 1,659 persons, for accident deaths and last rites expenses Rs. 1.89 crore to 185 persons and old-age pension totalling Rs. 45.66 lakh was given to 1,485 people during the past one year.

Officials were instructed to scrutinise the applications from the agriculture labourers on priority basis and disburse the assistance as early as possible.

Likewise the applications received for educational scholarships, maternity assistance and Janani Suraksha Scheme should be disbursed to the agriculture workers without any delay through the concerned departments.

P. Prabhakar, District Revenue Officer, K. Alagesan, Special Deputy Tahsildhar (Social Security Scheme), K. Rajagopal, Tahsildhar and other officials participated in the review meeting.

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