Many big promises including allowance to the youth?
The congress party has released its manifesto on monday (September 16) for the kashmir - SRINAGAR/JAMMU' target='_blank' title='jammu and kashmir-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>jammu and kashmir assembly elections. The congress manifesto 'Haath Badlega Haalat' promises to take several welfare measures for farmers, women and youth. The highlights of this manifesto include insurance of all crops against natural disasters and a guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) of Rs 72 per kg for apples.
According to PTI news agency, All india congress Committee chief spokesperson Pawan Khera and state congress Committee chief Tariq Hameed Karra released the manifesto at the party office. Pawan Khera said, "We will provide additional financial assistance of Rs 4,000 every year to landless, jotedar and land-owner farmer families. We will also arrange for a 99-year lease for landless farmers cultivating government land." Pawan Khera said that a fund of Rs 2,500 crore will be set up for all district level irrigation projects to ensure 100 percent irrigation for farmers in Jammu and Kashmir. The party has promised to give unemployment allowance up to Rs 3,500 per month for one year to eligible youth of Jammu and Kashmir. The party has also promised to fill one lakh vacant government posts by releasing a recruitment calendar within 30 days.
What else in the congress manifesto?
The manifesto promises to restart special recruitment for police, fire and forest protection force. It also promises to restart the scheme of allocating 30 percent of contracts related to construction work to groups of unemployed engineers. The manifesto says that we will prevent unnecessary trouble by simplifying the verification process for all government jobs, passports and other purposes.
Pawan Khera said that the situation in kashmir for the last 10 years has filled the heart of kashmir with wounds, but now the time has come to heal those wounds. A long night is about to end in kashmir - SRINAGAR/JAMMU' target='_blank' title='jammu and kashmir-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>jammu and kashmir and morning is about to dawn. Khera also reiterated the election promises made by congress President mallikarjun Kharge during his visit to the Union Territory last week.
The congress leader said that during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the women of kashmir - SRINAGAR/JAMMU' target='_blank' title='jammu and kashmir-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>jammu and kashmir had put forth their concerns in front of rahul gandhi and other leaders. We have promised a Mahila Samman program, under which we will give a monthly assistance of three thousand rupees to the female head of the family. women self-help groups will be given an interest-free loan of Rs 5 lakh.
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