Narendra Modi to launch Chhattisgarh food scheme

By IANS

Raipur : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will launch a Rs.8.5 billion annual subsidised food scheme of the Chhattisgarh government next week.


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“Modi will launch the Chief Minister Food Security Scheme on Jan 16 at a function to be held at Ambikapur towm, the district headquarters of Surguja,” spokesperson of the state’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saroj Pandey told newsmen Tuesday.

The scheme will provide rice at Rs.3 per kg to 3.4 million poverty-stricken families.

Pandey said senior party leaders would launch the scheme simultaneously at 15 locations in the state.

The BJP, which came to power in the mineral-rich state in December 2003, is launching the scheme with an eye on the assembly elections due in November this year.

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