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Policy likely to make women joint owners of property

Staff Correspondent

MYSORE: The Ministry of Women and Child Development will request the Department of Revenue to formulate a policy wherein women are made joint owners while registering land, house and residential sites to overcome technical hurdles they face while availing themselves of government benefits.

Disclosing this here on Thursday, Minister for Women and Child Development H.K. Kumaraswamy said many women were deprived of loans under government schemes as they could not produce ownership documents such as house or land ownership records to support their loan applications.

Realising this, the Government had made it compulsory for beneficiaries (male) of Ashraya houses to register houses jointly.

“The Government has set aside 33 per cent of funds in the Budget for the financial improvement of women. If the schemes are not utilised because of these technical hurdles, the funds will go waste.

“Therefore, I am planning to have a dialogue with the Minister for Revenue and the officials concerned on the issue,” he said.

The Minister admitted that the Karnataka State Finance Corporation had turned down loan applications of women on “technical reasons” such as capability of repayment of loans by them when they did not own any property in their name.

“I will talk to its officials to ease certain rules so that loans less than Rs. 5 lakh are sanctioned for starting small ventures by women,” he said.

Maintaining that not all departments were encouraging women to make use of their schemes, the Minister said empowerment of women was not possible unless all departments joined hands and executed government’s schemes in unison.

The Minister said appointment of anganawadi workers and assistants would commence following the vacation of a court stay and 5,600 people would be appointed to 11,313 anganawadi centres by the July end.

In addition, 3,000 additional anganawadi centres, including 159 for Mysore district, had been approved. Also, 50 Sthree Shakthi bhavans and 50 commercial complexes had been approved.

Following the success of a pilot initiative for providing LPG facility for anganawadi centres in Bangalore urban and rural and Kolar districts, the department had asked its officers to seek grants from the MPs’ and MLAs’ local area development fund to provide LPG connections to all centres across the State, he said.

The Minister said 1.15 lakh beneficiaries, including 4,641 in Mysore district, of Bhagyalakshmi project would receive certificates in the first week of July

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