Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (NR)

Bangalore Aug 20: There is good news for all the women who have been separated from their husbands. Now they will be receiving a sum of Rs 400 as financial assistance every month from the government.

In the course of the Janata Darshan which is being held after three months, the chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, while speaking to reporters on Saturday, August 18, declared that the assistance is similar to the pension currently being paid to widows and hence a sum of Rs 400 will be made available to women, every month who have been separated from their husbands. 

This scheme to benefit women of the state has been formulated by the chief minister on the eve of his handing over power to his coalition partner the BJP as per prior arrangement.

Deeply disturbed by the plight of women who have either been separated from or deserted by their husbands, Kumaraswamy has decided to put in place a mechanism that would provide them some financial relief. By doing so he hoped to make such women self-reliant and not allow them to go into depression because of want of money, he informed. 

The Janata Darshan of the chief minister drew hordes of people, majority of them being either disabled, unemployed or seeking medical help. And in the course of the darshan the CM received more than 3,000 petitions. 

According to Kumaraswamy the darshan was a success as he had been successful in providing relief to 70 per cent of the people who approached him.