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AP to spend 9000 Cr for SC, ST welfare in 3 Yrs
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Hyderabad, March 22: The state government has programmed to spend
Rs.9000 crores during the next three years to develop and distribute
25 lakh acres to the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes as part of
the welfare measures being initiated by the administration.
Disclosing this in the State Assembly while intervening during a
debate on the plight of the SCs and STs in the House, the Chief
Minister Mr. N. Kiran Kumar Reddy asserted that the Congress Party and
the Government were committed for the emancipation of the weaker
sections and downtrodden.
Earlier the House proceedings was stalled by CPM and CPI members who
had tabled adjournment motions on the problems faced by the harijans
and girijans, and the indefinite fast undertaken by the CPM Secretary
Mr. B. Raghavulu. After the Deputy Speaker disallowed the adjournment
motions and informed the CPM and CPI members that they could express
their views and suggestions on the subject during the discussion in
the House on the demands of the social welfare department, the Left
parties insisted that the government should first come out with a
clear cut assurance keeping in view the deteriorating health of the
fasting CPM leader in the hospital. The CPM and CPI members, holding
placards, rushed to the podium and persisted in their demand for a
positive response from the government. The efforts of the Deputy
Speaker and also that of the Minister for Legislature Affairs Mr.
Sridhar Babu to pacify the protesting members and restore order in the
House failed and proceedings could not make any headway.
The Minister for Social Welfare Mr. P. Satyanarayana reiterated that
the state government was committed for the welfare of the harijans and
girijans and as such has been making adequate budget allocations. The
government has also created a nodal agency to oversee that the funds
allocated are properly utilised for the welfare of these weaker and
downtrodden sections. If there are any loopholes in the implementation
of the welfare measures, the government would take required steps to
rectify them immediately, he assured.
The Minister further informed that the a high-level meeting is being
convened by the Chief Minister with the Chief Secretary and the
concerned officials on March 25 to discuss in depth various issues
concerning the welfare of these sections. He said that the members
have also an opportunity to air their views and make concrete
suggestions during the debate on the demands of the concerned
department. He appealed to Mr. Raghavulu to withdraw his hunger strike
as the government was taking all steps with regard to the demands he
had put forth for the welfare of the harijans and girijans.
The Communist members, however, remained unrelenting and continued to
protest near the podium, when the Deputy Speaker adjourned the House
for a brief period and advised the protesting members to meet him in
his chambers for consultations.
The House reassembled after a break of nearly two hours and even as
the protest by the Communist members continued, the Chief Minister
intervened and reassured that there was no going back on the
commitment of the state government for betterment and uplift of the
poor and downtrodden, especially the harijans and girijans.
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