Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday launched the month-long Jagananna Suraksha programme.This would enroll all eligible left-over beneficiaries into the state’s welfare schemes and resolve people’s issues on the grievance-redressal platform Jaganannaku Chebudam.
The massive exercise of reaching out to the poor involves lakhs of officials and people’s representatives.This, the chief minister said, was unprecedented in the country.
He launched the programme from the Camp Office here.
Launching the programme in virtual mode, the CM said that eligible persons requiring social welfare support from the government would be given the required certificates and enrolled as beneficiaries in these camps.
Senior officials and local MLA would personally attend the camps and help in the resolution of such grievances.
Jagan Reddy explained, “Jagananna Suraksha will cover 1.6crore families in 15,004 village and ward secretariats, facilitating a scenario of officials reaching out to every household in person.Officials would go and meet 5.3crore citizens of this state.”
He said, “Jagananna Suraksha will handhold all left-out but eligible beneficiaries from the stage of enrollment to delivery of welfare benefits.It is especially aimed at extending government services and welfare schemes to all eligible persons.Some 98 to 99 per cent of the eligible people are receiving welfare benefits.
We are enrolling the left-out people into the welfare schemes through bi-annual exercises in July and December.Still, there may be some people uncovered for any reason even after grievance redressal through Jaganannaku Chebudam.
All those grievances would be effectively addressed in Jagananna Suraksha”.
Minister Adimulapu Suresh said that the Jagananna Suraksha program has been undertaken to solve people’s problems and 11 types of certificates will be distributed door to door.Speaking to the media in Tadepalli on Friday, the Minister said that CM Jagan has provided 99.5 percentwelfare benefits and Jagan’s intention is to provide welfare schemes to 100 percent beneficiaries.He said that the staff will screen the people and identify their problems and solve them.
