Telangana HC notice to CS on Dalit Bandhu beneficiaries' selection
1 year, 4 months ago

Telangana HC notice to CS on Dalit Bandhu beneficiaries' selection

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the state government in a PIL, which complained against the government’s directions to district collectors to identify beneficiaries for the dalit bandhu scheme, in consultation with public representatives in Assembly constituencies. A division bench, comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice T. Vinod Kumar, directed the chief secretary and the principal secretary and commissioner of SC welfare and development department to respond to the PIL. A PIL was filed by a private employee in a software company K. Akhil Sri Guru Teja, challenging the impugned proceedings of the government vide GO Ms. No. 8 by directing the district collectors to identify 11000 SC families in each Assembly constituency as beneficiaries of the dalit bandhu scheme, in consultation with the local public representatives.

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Welfare Schemes Hit Fund Crunch Hurdle, Lakhs Affected
1 year, 5 months ago

Welfare Schemes Hit Fund Crunch Hurdle, Lakhs Affected

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Welfare schemes of the BRS government are facing a fund crunch hurdle, with benefits pending for an array of beneficiaries, causing hardships to them. Among the major pending schemes are funds disbursal of arrears of over Rs 3,000 crore in fee reimbursements and scholarships, and Rythu Bandhu aid for farmers owning over five acres. Under Dalit Bandhu, 1.30 lakh …

Infighting in BRS Halts BC Bandhu
1 year, 5 months ago

Infighting in BRS Halts BC Bandhu

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The BC Bandhu scheme announced by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, to extend ₹1 lakh financial assistance to Backward Classes dependent on caste-based professions, was halted across the state due to a tussle between BRS MLAs and local BRS leaders over the selection of beneficiaries. Although the government named the scheme ₹1 lakh financial assistance scheme for BCs’, it …

Four major Cabinet decisions fail to reach beneficiaries
1 year, 7 months ago

Four major Cabinet decisions fail to reach beneficiaries

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Even after more than two months, four major Cabinet decisions passed by the state government on March 9 are yet to be implemented. The Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao at Pragathi Bhavan on March 8 approved the implementation of the second phase of Dalit Bandhu to 1.3 lakh beneficiaries in the 118 Assembly constituencies at …

TS Cabinet meeting: Dalit Bandhu phase 2 to benefit 1.3 lakh families
1 year, 10 months ago

TS Cabinet meeting: Dalit Bandhu phase 2 to benefit 1.3 lakh families

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister K.Chandrashekar Rao on Thursday, decided to extend the Dalit Bandhu scheme to 1.3 lakh families across the state in the second phase in 118 of the state’s 119 Assembly constituencies, having covered Huzurabad in 2021 and 2022. The Cabinet also approved a slew of schemes — ‘Gruha Lakshmi’ to give Rs 3 …

Telangana: 2BHK housing scheme, Dalit Bandhu beneficiaries list on hold
1 year, 10 months ago

Telangana: 2BHK housing scheme, Dalit Bandhu beneficiaries list on hold

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Following widespread complaints of irregularities in beneficiary selection in various districts, the government is said to have decided to put the beneficiaries list of the 2BHK housing scheme and Dalit Bandhu on hold. Protests erupted in various districts, including Nalgonda, Mahabubnagar, and Nirmal, with protesters alleging that the names of "ineligible persons" were included in the list of beneficiaries …

MLAs in Telangana can no longer select Dalit Bandhu beneficiaries
2 years ago

MLAs in Telangana can no longer select Dalit Bandhu beneficiaries

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Legislators, who were given the authority to select beneficiaries when the Telangana government launched the Dalit Bandhu scheme in 2021, will now be stripped of their powers, and the state government will begin redrafting beneficiary selection guidelines following the High Court's orders. Following a petition in the Telangana High Court alleging misuse of the scheme for political gain, as …

CM to prioritise Rythu Bandhu over Dalit Bandhu
2 years, 1 month ago

CM to prioritise Rythu Bandhu over Dalit Bandhu

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Rythu Bandhu scheme, through which the Telangana government has been providing financial assistance to land-owning farmers via direct benefit transfer, is set to take precedence over Dalit Bandhu beneficiaries. According to official sources in the finance department, the state government, which is facing a nearly Rs 40,000 crore fund crunch this year due to the Centre's restrictions on …

Telangana govt. stops receiving applications for Dalit Bandhu
2 years, 1 month ago

Telangana govt. stops receiving applications for Dalit Bandhu

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The state government has stopped receiving applications for Dalit Bandhu across the state in the wake of recent High Court verdict that MLAs' recommendation was not needed for selection of beneficiaries. Even in constituencies represented by six Congress MLAs and three BJP MLAs, the TRS local leaders played a key role in selection of beneficiaries by exerting pressure on …

Dalit Bandhu beneficiaries stage protest with pesticide bottles in TS\' Huzurabad
2 years, 3 months ago

Dalit Bandhu beneficiaries stage protest with pesticide bottles in TS\' Huzurabad

Deccan Chronicle  

KARIMNAGAR: A tense atmosphere prevailed when the beneficiaries of the Dalit Bandhu Scheme of various mandals of the Huzurabad constituency staged a protest with the pesticide bottles in their hands with the intention of committing suicide here in front of the collectorate in Karimnagar on Monday. The beneficiaries said that in the beginning, the officials deposited Rs 9.9 lakh into …

TS Cabinet extends Dalit Bandhu reach, to seek legal opinion on clipping Guv\'s wings
2 years, 4 months ago

TS Cabinet extends Dalit Bandhu reach, to seek legal opinion on clipping Guv\'s wings

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The state Cabinet on Saturday decided to extend Dalit Bandhu scheme to an additional 500 beneficiaries in each of the 118 Assembly constituencies. After an elaborate discussion on the pending podu lands issue, the Cabinet asked revenue, forest and tribal welfare departments to hold coordination meetings in their respective districts under the chairmanship of the in-charge ministers to resolve …

Dalit Bandhu: Officials filter out beneficiaries
2 years, 9 months ago

Dalit Bandhu: Officials filter out beneficiaries

Deccan Chronicle  

Khammam: All Dalit families in Chintakani mandal may not get the benefit of the Dalit Bandhu scheme, as a special team has imposed certain conditions to filter out many families. There were stated to be 5,102 Dalit families in Chintakani mandal and the figure has come down to 4,719 after the first round of survey, sources said. There are 26-gram …

TRS faces Dalit Bandhu rush
2 years, 11 months ago

TRS faces Dalit Bandhu rush

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Ministers and TRS MLAs are said to be facing an uphill task in selecting 100 beneficiaries for Dalit Bandhu in their constituencies within the next 10 days. In the 16 non-TRS constituencies, TRS leaders are trying to secure Dalit Bandhu for their supporters with the help of district in-charge ministers. Party sources said ministers and TRS MLAs are also …

Harish Rao urges Centre to provide SC, ST, BC quotas in private sector
2 years, 11 months ago

Harish Rao urges Centre to provide SC, ST, BC quotas in private sector

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Demanding that the National Democratic Alliance-led BJP government at the Centre provide reservations to BCs, SCs and STs in the private sector, health minister T. Harish Rao on Sunday said the Telangana government would implement the prestigious Dalit Bandhu scheme in all districts by March 31. "Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao directed the officials to take measures to implement …

Dalit Bandhu sop put on fast track across state
2 years, 11 months ago

Dalit Bandhu sop put on fast track across state

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The state government has expedited the implementation of Dalit Bandhu scheme in 118 Assembly constituencies across the state. At present, the scheme is being implemented only in Huzurabad Assembly constituency on a pilot basis besides Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s adopted village Vasalamarri in Bhongir district, where the scheme was launched in August last year. The state government has …

TS govt depoists Rs. 10 lakh into bank accounts of 2,931 Dalit families
3 years, 3 months ago

TS govt depoists Rs. 10 lakh into bank accounts of 2,931 Dalit families

Deccan Chronicle  

Karimnagar: Implementing the Dalit Bandhu scheme as a pilot project in the Huzurabad Assembly constituency, the state government has deposited Rs 10 lakh into the bank accounts of 2,931 Dalit families in 15 villages in Ellanthakunta mandal. Asked about this in an interview, Vemuri Sai Krishna, manager of the Telangana Grameena Bank in Jammikunta of Huzurabad constituency, said the government …

Dalit Bandhu like scheme for other sections: CM Rao
3 years, 3 months ago

Dalit Bandhu like scheme for other sections: CM Rao

The Hindu  

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has said that the Dalit Bandhu like programme for SCs would be extended to poor among other communities in a serial order after the programme reached saturation levels for SCs. Mr. Rao announced this at a meeting to discuss arrangements for the implementation of Dalit Bandhu programme of promoting entrepreneurship among SCs in four more …

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