MP slums to get Rs 100 crore

  • 15/02/2005

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)

The Madhya Pradesh government will earmark Rs 100 crore for the Gokul Gram and Ayodhya Basti schemes in the state Budget, to be presented in the Assembly on February 18.It has selected 258 urban slum areas under Ayodhya Basti Scheme. The scheme has been launched in MP to ensure all-round development in the slum areas. Similarly, it has embarked upon the Gokul Gram Yojana to ameliorate the conditions of the 51,000-odd villages of the state.The scheme aims at providing better education, sanitation, health, drinking water, irrigation facilities, besides preserving the environment and ensuring efficient administration by putting to optimum use locally available resources in the villages under the scheme.