Telangana government ready to spend ₹ 3,000 crore for Dalit Bandhu first phase: CM
The Hindu
Plans to allocate ₹20,000 cr in next year’s budget; State’s finances witnessing significant growth, says CM
The State government has announced its resolve to implement Dalit Bandhu, the flagship programme for empowerment of Dalits, spending around ₹ 2,500 crore to ₹ 3,000 crore by March next year.
After announcing the decision to implement the pilot project in Huzurabad Assembly constituency and four mandals in different constituencies in saturation mode, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has said 100 families each in the remaining Assembly constituencies would be extended the benefit of ₹ 10 lakh grant without bank linkages before the end of the current financial year.
The government, he announced, plans to allocate ₹ 20,000 crore in the next year’s budget for Dalit Bandhu enabling coverage of around 200 families each in all the 119 Assembly constituencies of the State. The Chief Minister said that there would not be any pressure on the beneficiaries regarding the activity they wanted to take up using Dalit Bandhu funds nor would there be any restrictions on the number of businesses they wanted to start under the scheme.
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