BJP forms panel for social schemes

Panel will help publicise & implement social welfare schemes initiated under the BJP govt

New Delhi: Gearing up to

back the party- led government to the best of its

ability, the BJP has formed a panel of leaders

to help publicise and implement social welfare schemes initiated under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Gearing up to back the party- led government to the best of its ability, the BJP has formed a panel of leaders to help publicise and implement social welfare schemes initiated under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The panel will also play the role of coordinator between government and the party.

Sources in the party revealed that the move was conscious attempt to ensure that benefits of welfare programmes being launched by the government reach to the intended beneficiaries and the party wants to avoid the repeat of the previous NDA regime when many welfare programmes could not help the poor as they were not publicised properly.

BJP vice- president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, while describing the new coordination initiative, said, “The unprecedented success of the justlaunched Jan Dhan scheme is also due to party’s active participation in creating awareness about the initiative. As against the original target of bank accounts, we managed to open double the numbers on the launch of the scheme because we had already spread a word around about the launch of the initiative.”

The committee formed to ensure that government programmes reach the grassroots comprises Union ministers Ananth Kumar, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goel and Smriti Irani on the government side and BJP leaders Naqvi, J. P. Nadda, Ram Lal and Bhupendra Yadav. The mandate of the committee is to achieve better coordination between the party and the government in publicising new schemes and to get the best results, Mr Naqvi said.