New Delhi Nov 21 PTI The Delhi BJP plans to open Namo Sewa Kendras in slum pockets of around 32 Assembly constituencies in the city strengthening its outreach campaign Jhuggi Samman Yatra ahead of the crucial municipal corporation polls early next year party leaders said The BJP which is ruling the three municipal corporations since 2007 launched Jhuggi Samman Yatra on Vijaya Dashmi October 15 seeking to aware slum inhabitants about various welfare schemes of the Modi government and expose failures of the Kejriwal government in the city The NaMo Sewa Kendras will serve as centres to directly help slum dwellers get benefited by Modi government schemes like Ujjwala Yojna Jahan Jhuggi Wahan Makan among others said a senior functionary of the Delhi BJP Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta and other leaders have so far traversed the slum pockets in 17 Assembly constituencies across the city under its Jhuggi Samman Yatra The party has identified 32 such constituencies with a high density of slum clusters During these visits it was felt that many people were unable to reap the benefits of Modi governments schemes although they faced major problem of water supply electricity sewer and other such amenities that come under the domain of Kejriwal government the party functionary said The concept of NaMo Sewa Kendra was inspired by the thought to at least help people get those within their reach he said It is planned to employ local skilled youth to run these centres for maximum benefit to the locals he said Party leaders claimed the Jhuggi Samman Yatra is getting an excellent response in the slum clusters of the city We have already started helping people get Ujjwala Yojna gas connections and register them from other benefits of schemes like Jan Dhan Yojna The needy people are also being provided immediate help through the distribution of sarees to women and ration kits said Delhi BJP vice president Aditya Jha The BJP is pitted against a resurgent AAP riding on the popularity of Kejriwal governments free water and electricity schemes in the contest for 272 municipal wards in three municipal corporations that are expected to go far polls in April next year Many Delhi BJP leaders believe that an outcome of Assembly polls in Punjab Uttarakhand and particularly Uttar Pradesh will affect the outcome of municipal polls in the city A good show by Yogi Adityanath in UP will boost our chances here as did in 2017 elections in which we trounced the AAP in all three corporations said another Delhi BJP leader The strategy for the civic body polls will also figure in discussions at the executive committee meeting of the Delhi BJP on Monday party leaders said The one-day meet will take place at the NDMC Convention Centre in which leaders from the national leadership are expected to participate for political discussions The upcoming municipal corporation polls will be on top of the agenda for discussion they added PTI VIT AQS AQS

Guwahati Oct 17 PTI Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Sunday issued directions to officials for smooth disbursal of pension to state government employees including initiating the process a year ahead of superannuation Chairing a meeting of the Pension and Public Grievances Department here Sarma directed that all pension related papers have to be submitted online on the Kritagyata pension payment and tracking system portal an official statement said Sewa Kendras help centres will be set up in all the districts for online submission of pension-related papers It was decided at the meeting that the Director of Pension will use digital signature for meeting various requirements of pension-related matters It was also decided that depending on the merit of the case the director will be authorised to waive excess withdrawal of Rs 3 lakh by any government employee The National Informatics Centre NIC will integrate the Comprehensive Treasury Management Information System with the Kritagyata portal for enabling simultaneous actions by various functionaries for expeditious disbursal of pension it said The state government pensioners will be able to submit their life certificates to their respective bank branches using Jeevan Pramaan a digital biometric-enabled service and the government will issue the necessary notification to this effect soon as per another decision All eight medical colleges in the state will be empowered to have medical boards for commutation purposes the statement added During the meeting the chief minister also directed the functionaries concerned to hold regular meetings to design and adopt best practices for the benefit of state government employees and pensioners PTI SSG MM MM