<p>Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday announced a new scheme to provide subsidy, interest-free loans on e-scooter purchase by gig workers.</p><p>These workers have emerged as an important element of the service sector, providing door-step delivery of goods and services for online aggregators such as Uber, Zomato, Khattar said, adding that these people usually come from the poorest strata of society.</p><p>"Therefore, I propose to introduce a new scheme wherein a subsidy of Rs 5,000 and an interest-free loan with credit guarantee for an amount of Rs 45,000 or the actual ex-showroom price, whichever is less, for purchase of an electric scooter shall be provided to a gig-worker who is registered in Parivar Pehchan Patra (family id) and on e-shram and who belongs to a family whose annual income is up to Rs 1.80 lakh," Khattar said, while presenting the state Budget for 2024-25 in the Assembly.</p>.Haryana CM Khattar presents Rs 1.89 lakh crore state budget for FY25.<p>He said the details of the scheme shall be separately notified by the labour department.</p><p>Meanwhile, Khattar, who also holds the finance portfolio, announced an allocation of Rs 92.83 crore to the labour sector for 2024-25, an increase of 7.05 per cent over the revised estimates of Rs 86.71 crore in the current year.</p><p>He said during 2023-24, Haryana Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Board, spent Rs 250 crore on different welfare schemes supporting 85,338 beneficiaries.</p><p>The government has recently launched a scheme for providing electric scooters for the daughters of registered construction workers with financial assistance of up to Rs 50,000, or the actual ex-showroom price, whichever is less, through e-RUPI.</p><p>This will enable daughters of construction workers to avail of better opportunities for higher education, he said.</p>
<p>Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday announced a new scheme to provide subsidy, interest-free loans on e-scooter purchase by gig workers.</p><p>These workers have emerged as an important element of the service sector, providing door-step delivery of goods and services for online aggregators such as Uber, Zomato, Khattar said, adding that these people usually come from the poorest strata of society.</p><p>"Therefore, I propose to introduce a new scheme wherein a subsidy of Rs 5,000 and an interest-free loan with credit guarantee for an amount of Rs 45,000 or the actual ex-showroom price, whichever is less, for purchase of an electric scooter shall be provided to a gig-worker who is registered in Parivar Pehchan Patra (family id) and on e-shram and who belongs to a family whose annual income is up to Rs 1.80 lakh," Khattar said, while presenting the state Budget for 2024-25 in the Assembly.</p>.Haryana CM Khattar presents Rs 1.89 lakh crore state budget for FY25.<p>He said the details of the scheme shall be separately notified by the labour department.</p><p>Meanwhile, Khattar, who also holds the finance portfolio, announced an allocation of Rs 92.83 crore to the labour sector for 2024-25, an increase of 7.05 per cent over the revised estimates of Rs 86.71 crore in the current year.</p><p>He said during 2023-24, Haryana Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Board, spent Rs 250 crore on different welfare schemes supporting 85,338 beneficiaries.</p><p>The government has recently launched a scheme for providing electric scooters for the daughters of registered construction workers with financial assistance of up to Rs 50,000, or the actual ex-showroom price, whichever is less, through e-RUPI.</p><p>This will enable daughters of construction workers to avail of better opportunities for higher education, he said.</p>