The BJP in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday announced a slew of measures for the poor and the youngsters as it unveiled its manifesto for the November 25 Assembly elections, including giving smartphone to students, laptops for meritorious ones, besides benefits to five lakh youngsters under self-employment schemes.
The manifesto committee chairman, Vikram Verma released the party's vision document in the presence of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, State BJP President Narendra Singh Tomar and other senior party leaders.
"There are large number of youngsters in the state and to ensure their welfare BJP has announced a number of measures for them, specially smartphones for all government college students, providing benefits of self-employment schemes to five lakh youngsters and laptop for meritorious students," Mr Chouhan said on the occasion.
It also promised to construct 15 lakh houses for the landless in the state. For agriculture labourers, the party announced a novel provident fund scheme, new crop insurance policy, Mukhyamantri Khet Sadak Yojna, besides providing land lease to slum dwellers among others.
For turning agriculture into a profitable venture, the party has announced to increase the agriculture potential of the state to 40 lakh hectares from current 25 lakh hectare.
It also announced to set up ten agriculture polytechnic colleges in the state.
The Chief Minister said a new mobile service "109" will be launched in the state to ensure health care for domestic animals on the lines of 108 Ambulance service.
Mr Chouhan said that popular schemes like Ladli Laxmi Yojna, Mukhyamantri Kanyadan Yojna and Mukhyamantri Teerth Darshan Yojna among others will continue as before.
The BJP also announced to connect all villages in the state with an all-weather road in next five years as proper connectivity is a major issue in rural areas.
Referring to power which was a major issue in the state, the BJP promised to generate 20,000 MW till 2020.
For enhancing health and medical facilities in the state, the party announced setting up of five new medical and 15 nursing colleges, and taking the medical (MBBS) seats from current 1620 to 5000 by 2018.
The BJP has also announced to provide laptop to all the accredited journalists in the state, and facility of plot and construction of a house on concessional rates.
The party has also promised to establish a network of small and micro industries in the state and creation of Bhopal-Indore, Bhopal-Bina, Jabalpur-Singrauli and Mores Investment Corridor to give boost to industrialisation in the state.
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