BRS will do a lot for the women folk in the coming days assured the BRS working president KT Rama Rao. After day of ice cream and Biryani, KTR concentrated on women welfare.
With the State government focusing a lot on healthcare, institutional deliveries have increased from 31 percent to 61 percent. Infant and maternal mortality rates had also come down substantially, he said.
Telangana’s Streenidhi was worth emulating in other States. It is a Non-Banking Financial Corporation created by the State government in association with women Self-Help Groups.
Their disbursal runs into thousands of crores and the repayment was 99.99 percent, he said. The SHGs get interest free loans from the government and this was resulting in economic empowerment of women in rural areas, he said.
Shaadi Mubarak-Kalyana Lakshmi and women university were not promised in the manifesto but the BRS government delivered them.
Under the Amma vodi programme, a pregnant woman is picked up from her home for checkup and dropped back, he said.
BRS government was working with a private company, which produces vaccines for women with negative blood groups. These women have 14 percent higher chance of loss of blood and mortality rates high during pregnancy.
These vaccines will be administered to adolescent women and Telangana would be the first State to come up with such an initiative, he said.
A specific women’s development will be taken up by the BRS government he assured.
