Dalit Beneficiaries To Get Rs 10 Lakh Apiece Under Empowerment Programme: Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao

In the first phase, the assistance would be given to 100 families selected from each of the 119 Assembly constituencies

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao

Hyderabad: An all-party meeting has decided to send Rs 10 lakh financial assistance directly to the bank accounts of Dalit beneficiaries under the Chief Minister Dalit Empowerment Programme to the eligible beneficiaries to make them financially self-sufficient and enable independent decision making.

The all-party meeting has unanimously decided to send Rs 10 lakhs financial assistance directly to bank accounts of beneficiaries under CM Dalit Empowerment Programme: Telangana Chief Minister's Office

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According to the Telangana Chief Minister's office, in the first phase, the assistance would be given to 100 families selected from each of the 119 Assembly Constituencies. For this, the all-party meeting under the chairmanship of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao decided to earmark Rs 1,200 crore for the Chief Minister Empowerment Programme and to give financial assistance directly to the bank accounts of the selected Dalit beneficiaries to their bank accounts as was done in the case of Rythu Bandhu Scheme.

The all-party meeting felt that the proposed CM Dalit Empowerment Programme would bring in a qualitative change in the lives of beneficiaries and the programmes launched by the CM and his thoughts on "Dalits" have become a role model for the country. The meeting is of the opinion that the CM Dalit Empowerment Programme would further change the lives of beneficiaries for the better. The CM said that the all-party meeting was convened to make them stakeholders to stand unitedly by the Dalits, remove their inferiority and bring in a qualitative change in their thought process and attitude.

On Sunday, under CM K Chandrashekhar Rao chairmanship an all-party meeting was held at Pragathi Bhavan to finalise guidelines for the CM Dalit Empowerment Programme with representatives of Dalits for a marathon of 11 hours. In this meeting, several MPs, MLAs, MLCs, intellectuals, senior leaders from various political parties have participated.

Speaking on the occasion, CM KCR said, "It is a blot on Indian society that Dalits are subjected to social and economic discrimination. This is deeply bothering all of us. The Telangana State government has introduced several schemes and programmes for the development and welfare of Dalits. It has attained qualitative change in the agriculture and education sectors. But yet with an aim to set the Dalit families which are under the poverty line move towards development, CM Dalit Empowerment Programme is being introduced at a cost of Rs 1200 Crores."

The CM said it is the responsibility of the government to move the society forward like rearing of a child and any laxity would lead to a great loss to the future generations and the rulers would be held responsible for this. He said from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, Dalits are socially and economically exploited classes. He said this trend should be done away with.

(With inputs from ANI)