Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will distribute ex-gratia assistance of Rs 551 crore 16 lakh to 25 thousand 982 labourers’ families and Rs 22 crore 23 lakh to 1036 families of construction workers under the Sambal Yojana on Monday through a single click.
Along with this, he will also interact with the beneficiaries of the scheme. Chief Minister Shri Chouhan will also launch Sambal 2.0 portal to make the scheme more beneficiary oriented. Labour Minister Brijendra Pratap Singh will also be present in this programme to be held on May 16 at 11 am at the Chief Minister’s residence.
Sambal 2.0 scheme is being started by redesigning the scheme to benefit more beneficiaries from Sambal Yojana. Under the scheme, the tendu patta pluckers of the state will also be included in the category of unorganized workers. In Sambal 2.0, a provision has been made to apply on MP online or from public service centers and to give the information of the application on the mobile of the worker through SMS or WhatsApp. In this scheme, workers who were earlier declared ineligible will also be able to apply afresh.
Principal Secretary Labour Sachin Sinha informed that there is a provision to provide assistance under the Sambal Yojana for the workers and their families working in the unorganized sector of the state. Under the Anugrah Sahayata Yojana, an assistance of Rs 4 lakh is given in case of accidental death and Rs 2 lakh in case of normal death.
Similarly, Rs. 2 lakh is provided for permanent disability, Rs. 1 lakh for partial permanent disability and Rs. 5000 as funeral assistance. Under the scheme, women labourers are given Rs 16 thousand as maternity assistance, while free education is also being provided to the children of these labourers.
It may be noted that on September 27, 2021, Chief Minister Chouhan had transferred an ex-gratia amount of Rs 321 crore 35 lakh to 14 thousand 475 families of labourers of unorganized sector as death assistance under Mukhyamantri Jan-Kalyan Sambal Yojana.
‘Sambal’ is a very important scheme for lakhs of workers working in the unorganized sector in the state, in which the worker gets financial assistance from birth to death. In real sense the scheme is the strength of the workers. Chief Minister Chouhan has restarted this scheme in the interest of workers.
