HYDERABAD: Days after announcing the Dalita Bandhu scheme for empowerment of Scheduled Castes, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday said his government was ready to spend Rs 80,000 crore to Rs 1 lakh crore on its implementation in a phased manner.
He said the poorest of the poor families would given priority in Dalita Bandhu. In a bid to steer clear of the controversy that the scheme would be implemented only in Huzurabad constituency where a bypoll is scheduled, the CM said the scheme will be implemented all across the state.
He CM said Dalita Bandhu would be launched as a pilot project in Huzurabad and will soon be a role model scheme in the entire country. “It will free Dalits from economic and social discrimination,” he said.
KCR urged Dalit public representatives, intellectuals and associations to work together to make the scheme a grand success. He was addressing Dalit organisations’ leaders, activists and public representatives at Pragati Bhavan. They came from Huzurabad constituency to thank the CM for appointing Banda Srinivas, TRS leader from Huzurabad, as chairman of the Telangana State SC Development Corporation on Friday.
Asserting that the new scheme was unique, the CM said: “In every Dalit colony, a KCR should be born.” He further said: “Telangana people are heaving a sigh of relief after 100 years of harassment under kings, jagirdars, zamindars, landlords and later under united AP rulers. We are doing course correction in every sector. Telangana is back on track.”
