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Schemes for all, but few reaped benefits

Author: Sweta Dutta
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: December 9, 2013

"The average Rajasthani is self-respecting and does not like to live on doles," BJP leader Vasundhara Raje had warned the Congress moths before the state went to polls. The results seem to prove her right.

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's schemes were seem as a game changer. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had announced that the free medicine scheme would be extended to the rest of the country.

The expansion of the pension scheme, drawing in an additional 25 lakh beneficiaries, had even got the Opposition thinking. Gehlot doled out sops for all- farmers, elderly, journalists, employees. He promised Rs 5 lakh incentive for inter-caste marriages. He also promised 16 new medical colleges, 75,000 agricultural power connections, 44,000 jobs in police, 42,700 jobs as teachers and 40,000 as education helpers. He announced that the state employees salaries would be revised from July1.

But the benefits of the schemes failed to reach the voter due to shoddy implementation.

Moreover, the oil refinery in Pachpadra, Barmer, also became a bone of contention within the party, exposing the rift within the party, exposing the within. In Pachpadra, where the refinery was expected to benefit the local candidate, the Congress's Madan Prajapat lost to the BJP's Amra Ram.
 
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