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Bihar women to get monthly aid of Rs 2,500 if Cong voted to power: Supriya

Patna, May 27 (UNI) The Congress on Tuesday said that women of Bihar would be given a monthly assistance of Rs 2,500 if the party is voted to power in the next assembly elections due later this year. Party's national spokesperson and in-charge of social media Supriya Shrinate told media that Congress has always worked hard to ensure economic and social empowerment of women. "Former Delhi chief minister late Sheela Dikshit was the first in the country to roll out a financial assistance scheme for women", Shrinate said, adding the Dikshit government had started the scheme to deposit Rs 36,000 in bank accounts of mothers on the birth of a girl child in 2008. Girls were also being paid Rs 25,000 for their studies till class 12, she recalled. "The Congress government in Karnataka offers a monthly assistance of Rs 2,000 to women. Nearly 1.35 crore women are getting the scheme's benefits," Srinate said. "Similarly, the party government in Himachal Pradesh gives Rs 1,500 per month to women. In Jharkhand, where Congress was a part of the coalition government, Rs 2,500 were being given to women per month," she pointed out. She hit out at the NDA government headed by JD-U's Nitish Kumar, saying poverty was rampant in the state. The Congress leader said the socio-economic caste census had revealed that 94 lakh families had a monthly income of less than Rs 6,000. It meant that five crore people were surviving on a paltry sum of Rs 40 per day", she said. UNI KKS PRS