Odisha 2017 govt scheme
- Tritiya Prakriti Surakshya Abhiyan for the Welfare of Transgender Community in Odisha
The State Government of Odisha is planning to launch a new scheme named as “Tritiya Prakriti Surakshya Abhiyan (TPSA)” for the welfare of the transgender community. The aim of the scheme is to provide rehabilitation facilities, scholarships to transgender students, generate employment opportunities and other basic facilities to the transgenders.
TPSA scheme guidelines will be introduced and operated by the department of social security and empowerment of persons with disabilities (SSEPD) for the upliftment of the transgender community. Before implementation of the scheme, SSEPD department will soon start the survey to identify the transgender people across the state.
Benefits of Tritiya Prakriti Surakshya Abhiyan (TPSA)
- The benefits of the scheme would be provided only to the transgender community.
- Identification and rehabilitation of transgenders.
- Employment opportunities.
- The students will get monthly post-metric scholarship of Rs. 550 for day scholar.
- Transgender students will get Rs. 1,200 for hostel boarders for 10 months.
- The state government will Conduct skill development program and provide Rs. 15,000 per transgender trainee for 200 hours of the course.
The transgender population in Odisha state stood at 43,161 in rural areas and 4,632 in urban areas, according to Socio – Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011. Transgenders have marginalized and alienated for so long despite being a part of the society.
- UNNATI Scheme Launched for Development in Urban Areas by Odisha Govt.
The state government of Odisha has launched “UNNATI” scheme for the development in urban areas across the state. The aim of the scheme is to bring prosperity and inclusive growth in urban areas.
Under the UNNATI scheme, the state govt. will provide funds through various schemes and agencies. Also the state government has decided to provide 100 percent LED street lighting and piped water supply to all districts in the state.
According to the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) and the Housing and urban development department the govt. would invest nearly Rs. 75 crore in the coming year for LED street lights across the state. For a period of seven years, maintenance and monitoring of LED street lighting will be taken care by EESL.
As per provision in the agreement, within a year, total no. of 1.12 lakh conventional lights in all the 107 urban local bodies in Odisha state would be replaced by energy-efficient LED lights. The sufficient implementation efforts of the scheme by the state government could help the total cost saving of about Rs 26.97 crore per annum. With the scheme, state govt. will achieve energy saving to the tune of 35.97 million units annually.
The state govt. has urged to all the citizens to actively use social media tools like Facebook and Twitter as an aspect of good governance and use it as ‘citizens connect’.
As per provision in the agreement, within a year, total no. of 1.12 lakh conventional lights in all the 107 urban local bodies in Odisha state would be replaced by energy-efficient LED lights. The sufficient implementation efforts of the scheme by the state government could help the total cost saving of about Rs 26.97 crore per annum. With the scheme, state govt. will achieve energy saving to the tune of 35.97 million units annually.
The state govt. has urged to all the citizens to actively use social media tools like Facebook and Twitter as an aspect of good governance and use it as ‘citizens connect’.
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