Rs 17,700 crore for Dalit Bandhu in Telangana Budget

Hyderabad: The State government has proposed an outlay of Rs. 17,700 crore for Dalit Bandhu scheme in the budget 2022-23. By the end of March this year, approximately, 40,000 families were going to be benefited by Dalit Bandhu scheme with Rs.4,000 crore, Finance Minister T Harish Rao said in the State Assembly. The scheme will […]

Hyderabad: The State government has proposed an outlay of Rs. 17,700 crore for Dalit Bandhu scheme in the budget 2022-23. By the end of March this year, approximately, 40,000 families were going to be benefited by Dalit Bandhu scheme with Rs.4,000 crore, Finance Minister T Harish Rao said in the State Assembly. The scheme will be implemented in the saturation mode in the Huzurabad Assembly segment and four more mandals – Chintakani, Tirumalagiri, Nizamsagar and Charagonda. Apart from that, in all the 118 Assembly segments of the State, 11,800 families would get the benefit at the rate of 100 families per Assembly segment.

By the end of next financial year, the scheme would cover two lakh families. The government was determined to cover all the dalit families in the State in a phased manner. “I do not have any doubt in saying that this programme would be a torchbearer for the rest of the country,” Harish Rao said.

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According to him, Dalit Bandhu is not just a scheme but is an effective policy and the beginning of a complete transformation. Once economic development is achieved, social discrimination will also subside. Human relationships will become more equal and flourish. Every dalit family of the State will get a financial assistance of Rs.10 lakh as part of Dalit Bandhu. In all, the State government has allocated Rs.20,624.88 crore for scheduled castes development department.

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