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Committed to implement welfare schemes despite financial constraints: Andhra Pradesh CM

Denying that Andhra Pradesh is slipping into ‘‘Sri Lanka-like financial crisis’‘ owing to the State government’s financial profligacy as alleged by Opposition Telugu Desam Party and a section of the media “acting as its mouthpiece”, Chief Minister Y.S. Addressing a public meeting here on Friday, after releasing the third tranche of the zero interest scheme amount of ₹1,261 crore to women self help groups in the State, Mr. Jagan made it clear that overcoming the adverse impact of COVID-19 on the economy, the YSR Congress Party government was determined to provide hand-holding support to different sections of people, including members of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, Minorities and Economically Bbackward Classes to improve their living condition. As the Chief Minister asked the assembled women to see through the ‘‘Goebbelsian propaganda’‘ made by the TDP and its allies unable to digest the growing popularity of the “women-friendly” government in the State, the SHG members by waving their hands pleaded with him not to scrap the welfare schemes. Women alone got a lion’s share of benefits of welfare schemes like ‘YSR Asara’, ‘YSR Cheyutha’ to the tune of ₹94,318 crore, the Chief Minister said.

The Hindu

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