Welfare schemes make this Sankranti best ever festival for Telangana people: Deputy CM Bhatti
New Indian ExpressKHAMMAM: This year’s Sankranti will remain in history as the best harvest festival since the formation of Telangana, Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu said on Monday. Speaking at a review meeting on the four new welfare schemes to be implemented in the state, he said Telangana is witnessing the best implementation of welfare schemes in the country. “The Congress government is implementing free bus travel for women, providing cooking gas cylinders at Rs 500 to the BPL families besides enhancing Rajiv Arogyasri insurance limit to Rs 10 lakh, commencement of the construction of Young India International Schools, hiking diet charges of hostel students by 40 per cent, 200 percent in charges of cosmetics and payment of Rs 500 bonus for fine variety of paddy per quintal,” Vikramarka said. The minister announced that the government is implementing four more important welfare schemes — Rythu Bharosa, Indiramma Atmeeya Bharosa, Indiramma housing and the sanction of new ration cards — for the benefit of the people of Telangana.