PATNA: INDIA bloc CM face Tejashwi Prasad Yadav Tuesday sugarcoated a scheme of monthly doles that RJD has promised for women, vowing to transfer an entire year’s amount of Rs 30,000 in one go. “I had already promised that if voted to office, we would transfer Rs 2,500 each into the accounts of women every month under Mai Bahin scheme. Now, we have decided that Rs 30,000 will be transferred in advance on the occasion of Makar Sankranti on Jan 14 next year,” Tejashwi said as campaigning for first phase of polls on Thursday ended.The RJD mascot reiterated some other promises. “We will make the jobs of Jeevika Didis (self-employment) community mobilisers permanent. We will give them Rs 2,000 every month,” Tejashwi added.

Tejashwi announced that farmers would receive Rs 300 per quintal of paddy and Rs 400 per quintal of wheat as bonus over and above the MSP. He vowed free electricity for irrigation, claiming the current NDA govt charges 55 paise per unit for power used in agricultural activities.Heads of all Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) and Primary Marketing Cooperative Societies (Vyapar Mandals) will be given the status of people’s representatives, Tejaswhi said. He declared that state employees would be transferred within 70km of current postings and the old pension system would be restored, a long-pending demand of the employees.