Chhattisgarh Assembly polls - Congress manifesto

Farmers will be provided Rs 2000 per quintal for their paddy and of the total payment Rs 500 will be paid to woman members of their family.

Tarun Khanna

Congress

Highlights of the manifesto are:

  • Farmers will be provided Rs 2000 per quintal for their paddy and of the total payment Rs 500 will be paid to woman members of their family.
  • Provision of free rice of 35 kg a month to below poverty line and above poverty line families (exempting the income tax payee).
  • Free power supply to farmers for 5 hp pumps.
  • Formulation of a policy to win tribals to take on left wing extremism in the state.
  • Establishing confidence in the scheduled tribe region will be on priority of the party.
  • Development of the Jeeram Ghati (Bastar) where senior Congress leaders were killed in May 25 attack, as martyrs` site.
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