Female Infanticide, Child Marriage Will Increase If Inflation Is Not Controlled: Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren

He further claimed that campaigns like 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' will be finished as people will not have money to provide education to their daughters.

New Delhi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday while addressing the state assembly said if inflation is not controlled then cases of female infanticide and child marriages will increase in the country. 

"Cases of female infanticide, child marriage will increase in the coming days if we'll not control inflation in the country," Jharkhand CM said as per news agency ANI.

He further claimed that campaigns like 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' will be finished as people will not have money to provide education to their daughters.

"The country's Adivasis, Dalits, backward classes will be the worst impacted by inflation," he said.

We've demanded payment of Rs 1.36 lakh crore (dues) from the coal companies, and we will take it, this is the state's right otherwise we will put barricades around coal mineral resources, Soren said further.

The session, which started on February 25, had a total of 17 working days.

Pension Schemes

The month-long budget session of the Jharkhand Assembly was adjourned sine die on Friday, with Chief Minister Hemant Soren hinting at a possible revival of the old pension scheme, and increasing the MLA fund. 

“We are going to implement the old pension scheme in the state very soon,” Soren said in the assembly according to PTI. 

Legislators of ruling and opposition parties in the state have been demanding the revival of the old pension scheme. The scheme for government employees was discontinued from April 1, 2004, and the new National Pension Scheme (NPS) was implemented.

The MLA fund will soon be increased from Rs 4 crore to Rs 5 crore, Soren added.

(With Agency Inputs)