Give bananas under Ksheera Bhagya, student advises govt

Beneficiaries interact with minister at Jana Mana programme

Muthu, a student, suggested the government to provide banana to schoolchildren along with milk under the Ksheera Bhagya scheme. He was speaking at an interaction with District In-charge Minister M R Seetharam organised by the Department of Information and Public Relation in Madikeri on Monday.

Beneficiaries said that support price for milk producers has been hiked to Rs 5, which is a good move benefiting the farmers. “The government has enhanced the allocation for each member of BPL families from 5 kg to 7 kg rice a month, which has benefited the poor. The monthly honorarium of Rs 500 for the beneficiaries under Manaswini scheme should be increased to Rs 1,000 per month,” said the beneficiaries.

Seetharam said that the government has introduced welfare programmes like “Anna Bhagya,” “Ksheera Bhagya,” “Kere Sanjeevini,” drinking water unit, Bidayi, “Rajeev Arogya Bhagya,” “Nirmala Bhagya” and “Krishi Bhagya”. The welfare programmes should help empower the poor.

He called upon the beneficiaries to educate their children. The Department of Information and Public Relation has brought out a booklet on the achievement of the state government in the last four years.

MLC Shantheyanda Veena Acchaiah, Silk Marketing Federation president T P Ramesh, Madikeri CMC president Kaveramma Somanna, Regional Commissioner Kalpana, Deputy Commissioner Dr Richard Vincent D’Souza and others were present.