...making people to get benifit from government schemes@JCSS-Jhansi

Mahamaya Aarthik Madad Yojna is one of the welfare schemes, launched by state Government. Under this scheme those households which have not been covered by any other schemes but are poor, being given Rs. 300/- per month as pension.

On 24^th of July, in village Rajapur, 10-12 people( Naresh Ahirwar, Ramlal, Mahendra, Asharam Pal, Sunil, Siroman and others) were discussing about Mahamaya Aarthik Madad Yojna. The cluster coordinator Mr. Krishna was passing through that meeting place. One of the villagers said Namaste to Krishna. Krishna responded positively. The villagers requested Krishna to tell them about Mahamaya aarthik madad yojna. Then Krishna gave them the Harit Prayas IEC material. One of the villagers read the provisions of MAMY. The villagers learnt that the parameters set by Government have not been followed in preparing the list of beneficiaries. They realized that all is not well with the implementation of MAMY in their village.

Next day Nareh Ahirwar and some other people went to Tehsil office and complained about irregularities in preparation of list of beneficiaries of MAMY scheme. 0n 27^th of July some officer from Babina block office came to Rajapur ( Mr. Verma and Panchayat secretary). The village pradhan also participated in the meeting at Rajapur. The cluster coordinator Mr. Krishna was also present in the meeting. People asked about the irregularities, the block officer were in defensive mode, the pradhan was a bit nervous and the community members were on the front foot. The block officers tried to clarify. But they could not satisfy the villagers. The meeting failed. And the people announced that they will complain with the higher authorities and if needed, they will also go to court.

As per the latest information available the some people of Rajapur have made a complaint to the higher authorities.

Once people come to know about the rules and regulation of different welfare schemes launched by Government, as it happened in this case (IEC material developed by Harit Prayas), people start demanding their right. They are no more passive receiver of benefit, but active participants. Harit Prayas is making its effort in this direction.