Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani has announced several schemes, gifts and measures for Amethi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi. She said, the Modi government has done more for Amethi’s people in recent weeks than generations of Congress’s first family members.
Mrs. Irani also deposited premiums for Pradhanmantri Suraksha Bima Yojna for one year on behalf of 25,000 BPL families of Salone, Amethi, Gauriganj, Jagdishpur and Tiloi Vidhan Sabha constituencies. Mrs Irani gave away premium cheques of 60,000 rupeese for each constituency totally to three lakh Rupees to the lead bank manager on behalf of BPL families. Among other ’gifts’ to Amethi on the completion of Modi government’s first year, the ministry of Railways granted approval for the doubling of the Unchahar-Amethi railway track to facilitate train movement, a soil testing laboratory for farmers, a statue of a Kargil martyr, and ambulance services for Haliyapur. Apna Dal MP from Pratapgarh, Harivansh Singh also announced the setting up of a women’s degree college, and a women’s polytechnic, in one and two years.