Mayawati even cheated poor women belonging to BPL category: Rahul Gandhi

Lashing out against Mayawati for looting welfare funds meant for the poor, Congress (I) General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had said that Mayawati government looted money meant for welfare of poor women belonging to BPL category. Mayawati failed to protect even the interests of poor women for whom Congress led center has sent a number of social welfare and health care schemes, said the Congress leader while campaigning for the recently held UP Assembly elections. Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is one such scheme under National Rural Health Mission. The scheme is meant to encourage institutional delivery of pregnant women. For this Rs 1400 are given to each woman in cash as incentive plus around to Rs. 2,000 to ASHA worker who assist the pregnant woman. But even in this scheme there is scam of Rs 28 crore. For instance in one case a women is shown to have delivered twice in five months. On scrutiny it was found second delivery was bogus. Most bizarre case came to notice in Allahabad district where 619 unmarried girls were shown to have delivered and amount was fraudulently claimed in their names. Highlighting that Mayawati was really not concerned in the welfare of the poor, Rahul Gandhi promised that Congress (I) would ensure that the welfare schemes reach the poor.

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