Telangana government brought golden era in welfare.Telangana is one and only state in providing welfare benefits to each and every one i.e., from small kids to old age people. Today,with the welfare programmes, each and every house is getting benefitted. Telangana is a welfare State. The large-scale welfare programmes are being implemented only in our state in the entire country.
Telangana government is providing security and livelihood to helpless poor through Aasara pensions. United Andhra Pradesh has given only Rs.200/- pension, the Telangana government is giving Rs.2016/- pension to poor people. While old age people,widows, Beedi workers, toddy tappers, weavers, badirilu, bodakaalu (elephantiasis) victims, AIDs victims, single women are getting Rs.2016/- pension, physically challenged people, poor and old artists are getting Rs.3016/- Aasara pensions regularly.
Aasara pensions are distributed to 39 lakhs 36 thousand and 521 people in the state.
We have received Rs.105 crores from Central government @ Rs.200/- per month each for 6 lakh 66 thousand people for the year 2019-20. State government is adding Rs.1816/- for each person and distributing Rs.2,016/- pension.
In addition to that, State government is paying Rs.2,016/- pension monthly to another 31 lakh 31 thousand 660 people and Rs.3,016/- to physically challenged people.
As per the audit report of 2019-2020, the state government is spending 98.80% towards pensions, the Central government is contributing only 1.20%. There is no evidence that any other state is spending in this level to provide pensions to the destitute.
An amount of Rs.11,728 crore is proposed in Budget Estimates 2021-22 for this scheme.
Kalyana Lakshmi / Shaadi Mubarak:
Hon’ble Chief Minister intended to help the parents who are struggling to perform their daughter’s marriages due to poverty,Kalyana Lakshmi / Shaadi Mubarak scheme is introduced from his humanitarian ideology. Under this scheme, government is giving Rs.1,00,116/- assistance to perform poor girls’ marriage.
Lakhs of girls are being blessed by Hon’ble Chief Minister through this scheme. Similarly, for Muslim girls nikha, the same scheme is being implemented under the name Shaadi Mubarak. Many poor girls parents are benefitted under this scheme and are feeling happy to perform their daughters’ marriage. All those poor Muslim girls who are conveying their best wishes to Hon’ble Chief Minister, gives immense satisfaction to us.
So far, Government has released Rs.6,480 crore which benefitted 8 lakh 4 thousand 521 people under this scheme.An amount of Rs.2,750 crore is proposed in Budget Estimates 2021-22 for Kalyana Lakshmi / Shaadi Mubarak scheme.
Schedule Casts and Schedule Tribes welfare:
In democracy every section of the society should get equal opportunities. To attain comprehensive development of Schedule Casts and Schedule Tribes, Telangana government is the only State to have introduced Special Development Fund Act. Proportionate to the population of SC, ST people, we are allocating funds directly in the Budget and in few occasions over and above the proportionate allocations are being made in Budget and utilising the same only for their development.
According to the Special Development Fund Act, in any financial year if certain amount of funds for any reason are not utilised for the welfare of SC, ST people, they are automatically transferred to the next financial year funds. This rule is introduced only by the Government of Telangana and set an example to other States. Recently, the Government of Rajasthan has studied the modalities being followed by the Telangana Government and decided to adopt the same.
