Will strive hard for development of dalits \'until my last breath\': KCR

Karimnagar: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao said on Friday that just as he had participated in the separate Telangana movement by sacrificing everything, he would now work to make the Dalit Bandhu scheme a huge success. “I will strive for comprehensive development of the Dalits until my last breath,” he said while chairing a review meeting with ministers T. Harish Rao, Koppula Eshwar and Gangula Kamalakar and district collector R.V. The government supported the people in rearing sheep, fish farming etc and helped the weavers community alongside the MBCs, SCs, STs, BCs and Minorities.” The CM said, “By introducing the Rythu Bandhu and Rythu Bima Schemes, the state government has given the much-needed relief to the agriculture sector.” “Telangana is now heading towards all round development. This is the only state that is sanctioning pensions to single women, beedi workers, patients suffering from filaria and also implementing welfare schemes like Kalyana Lakshmi, KCR Kit and Amma Odi vehicles.” Rao said, “For the past several years, I was thinking about development of the Dalits. The Dalit Bandhu scheme would have been started in May last year, but Coronavirus pandemic came and stalled the work on this for some time.” Parliament member Santosh Kumar, MLC Rajeshwar Reddy, MLAs Rasamai Balakishan, Sunke Ravishankar, former minister Kadiyam Srihari, SC corporation chairman Banda Srinivas, former SC, ST commission chairman E. Srinivas, CMO officials Smitha Sabharwal and Rahul Bojja were present apart from the district collector.