Keeping in mind the pension, the government of Himachal has made changes. Talk about Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, there has been some change in the budget presented.
Keeping this change of government in mind, the government has announced to give benefits to lakhs of old women and men of the state. It is to be known that the government has presented its last budget. In which apart from the elderly, many big announcements have been made.
Talking about the state government, after increasing the old age pension going to be received every month from Rs 1,001 in this budget, it has been announced to increase it to Rs 1,500. Apart from this, now people of 60 years of age are also going to get the benefit of old age pension scheme.
In fact, the age of the eligible beneficiaries of the old age pension scheme has been reduced by the government. According to this, till now the benefit of pension was given to those who were 70 years old.
This has been reduced by the government and people above 60 years of age also start getting the benefit of old age pension scheme.
they also get benefit
Now in the budget, the government has also announced to increase the MLA fund. He has announced to increase the MLA fund from Rs 1.80 crore to Rs 2 crore for development in the area.
That is, now 20 lakh rupees more will be available to the MLAs to spend. With this, MLAs will be able to benefit more people in their area. The government has also increased discretionary grants in the budget.
Chief Minister Thakur said that the discretionary grant of MLAs is being increased from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 12 lakh for the next financial year. Overall, the government in its last budget has taken decisions related to public representatives and people.