Gandhinagar, Aug. 27 -- Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel decided to allocate a total of Rs. 28 crore as a special development grant for road and infrastructure development in the constituencies of women legislators as a special Raksha Bandhan gift, an official statement said on thursday.

According to the statement, under this decision, 14 women legislators representing the people in the State Legislative Assembly will each receive a development grant of Rs. 2 crores for undertaking various road infrastructure development works in their respective constituencies. The 14 legislators include nine women MLAs from urban areas and five from rural areas.

The special grant allocated to the women legislators will be utilised for undertakin...