Ensuring zero-waste in each local body, a detailed project to check stray dog menace and ₹2,000 special monthly allowance to the Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) figure among the key promises included in the United Democratic Front’s (UDF) manifesto for the local body polls released in Kochi on Monday (November 24, 2025).
The second phase of the ‘Ashraya’ scheme for eradication of poverty, yearly increase of 10% in Plan Fund for local bodies and special fund allocation of 5% for projects to support the youth are among the key proposals that find a place in the document.
Timely implementation
Leader of the Opposition V.D Satheesan said that the focus will be on accurate planning, simplification of processes and time-bound implementation of projects undertaken by the local bodies. The officials and the local bodies will be accountable, if there is a delay in the implementation of the projects, he said.
He said that ‘Ashraya 2.0’ will be an improved version of the ambitious poverty eradication scheme launched during the previous UDF-rule under the late Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.
