Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has said that the state government is ready to spend Rs. 80,000 Crore to One lakh crore to Dalit families , who have only hands and feet as their own property (poorest of the poor) will be the first priority for the Dalit Bandhu Scheme.
The CM said that the Dalit Bandhu Scheme, which would be launched as a pilot project in Huzurabad Constituency, would stand as a role model to the entire country. It would free Dalits all over the country from economic and social discrimination, CM desired. The CM urged Dalit Public representatives, intellectuals; Dalit associations to work with commitment make the scheme a grand success.
The Chief Minister addressed Dalit Association leaders, Intellectuals, leaders, activists and public representatives who came from Huzurabad Assembly Constituency to Pragathi Bhavan here on Saturday to thank the CM for appointing Banda Srinivas as Chairman of the SC Corporation. On this occasion, the CM felicitated SC Corporation Chairman Sri Banda Srinivas with a shawl.
Speaking on the occasion, the CM urged that for the success of Dalit Bandhu every Dalit should work with commitment and dedication and in every Dalitwada one KCR should born. The light that emanates with the success of the Scheme in Huzurabad should spread not only in Telangana but countrywide. The Telangana Dalit development should be taken up like the separate statehood movement of Telangana.
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“The Telangana people are heaving a sigh of relief, after 100 years of harassment under Kings, Jagirdar Zamindar, land lords and later the united AP rulers. We are correcting each and every sector one by one. Now Telangana is back on tracks,” the CM said.
“In the beginning days of separate Telangana statehood movement, doubts arised whether Telangana will be achieved? It came. They said 24 hours power supply might not happen, it happened. When mega irrigation projects like Kaleswaram were planned they doubted whether such projects might happen, they happened. Agriculture, which was considered a wasteful profession, became profitable. When Rythu Bandhu Scheme was launched people were skeptic. Today farmers are producing 3 Crore Tonnes of Paddy. Similarly, some doubt the Dalit Bandhu. We will burst their doubts. We will implement Dalit Bandhu with the same spirit. We will be victorious,” the CM declared.
The CM took a pledge from the participants that Huzurabad will lay foundation for the Dalit community development not only for Telangana but also for the country. The CM explained that the people in Telangana were like the Lion caught trapped by flock of the Sheep under the united AP rule. The entire country is bewildered at the development of Telangana. The time has come when Telangana farmers are sowing seeds during Rohini Karthi. He said social evils like the dowry, Untouchability can be removed with education and economic development. He said the state government stood by old age people, single woman and the handicapped and there is light in their eyes.
Similarly, the CM said he wanted to see happiness on the faces of Dalits. The CM said he has not given a post to Banda Srinivas but put a rock of responsibility on his head. “The governments in the past came out with some schemes and asked for the bank guarantees. How can Dalits who toiled with their hands get the bank guarantees? Hence the financial assistance given by the government through Dalit Bandhu is free. This is not a loan. No need to repay it. There is no chance of any middlemen in this. Eligible beneficiaries will get the assistance in their bank accounts,” the CM clarified.
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“The scheme is meant to empower the Dalits and make them self- sufficient in more than one way. Please don’t misuse the assistance for meagre things. Find out the opportunities to make the best of the assistance for gainful employment. Develop financially. And every one should work in this direction,” the CM said.
In this meeting, Finance Minister T Harish Rao, State Planning Board Vice Chairman B Vinod Kumar, Rythu Bandhu State President Palla Rajeshwar Reddy, BC Commission former Member
Vakulabharanam Krishna Mohan, TRSV State President Gellu Srinivas Yadav, Huzurabad ZPTC Sri Bakkareddy, councilors, MPTCs, Sarpanches, State Dalit Associations leaders, and several Dalit aders
and activists in large numbers have participated.
SOURCE-NSS
