Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has paid rich tributes to philosopher, visionary and social reformer Mahatma Jyotirao Phule on the occasion of his 195th birth anniversary on Sunday (April 11).
In a message here the CM recalled the services rendered by Mahatma Jyotirao Phule to the country. He said the action program implemented by Mahatma Phule to eradicate caste discrimination and upliftment of Dalit Bahujan and Women was of the highest order.
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The CM said that the Telangana state government has taken inspiration from Mahatma Phule’s philosophy that socio-economic prosperity could be achieved only through education and equality, irrespective of caste or gender, and is implementing the same. The state government had been implementing several programs, schemes to make people in the hereditary professions live with social respect and economically independent.
The Chief Minister said that the six-and half-year-old Telangana self-governance process was continuing by taking inspiration from great personalities like Mahatma Phule. He said that the welfare schemes being implemented by the Telangana government at a cost of about Rs 45,000 crore annually are helping the upliftment of the backward SC, ST, BC, and Minority women.
The CM said that the performance of the Telangana government in the field of development and welfare is being praised at the national and international levels. He said that the Telangana government is making special efforts in the field of education and the good results registered by the residential educational institutions are proof of making Mahatma Phule’s ideas into action.
The CM also recalled that the state government is giving financial assistance to the weaker sections of students to pursue education overseas under Mahatma Phule Videsh Vidya Nidhi. Schemes being implemented by the government to curb child marriages have also been successful and are bearing fruits. He said the government had given top priority to education, health, and protection of women and improved facilities for them. The CM said that the government had allotted prime lands for the construction of Buildings for the BCs, MBCs to enhance their self-respect.
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He said the government’s policies, programs, and schemes to strengthen the rural economy, which contributes to the economic progress of the weaker sections of the society, have become ideal programs for the entire country and they were all, in fact, inspired by Mahatma Phule.
SOURCE-NSS
