Fulfilling a major election promise, Telangana CM KCR announced that all beedi workers in the state would get monthly allowance of Rs 1,000 from March 1.
Fulfilling a major election promise, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Friday announced that all beedi workers in the state would get monthly allowance of Rs 1,000 from March 1.
Addressing a press conference at the State Secretariat, the Chief Minister said that as per the Intensive Household Survey, there were 4.90 lakh beedi workers in the State. Of them, 1.40 lakh were already getting pension under the Aasra scheme, and nearly one lakh were getting benefits under the Central Government's Provident Fund scheme. Therefore, the proposed incentive would be given to the remaining 2.5 lakh workers who were not covered under any scheme.
The Chief Minister appealed to the beedi workers to submit their applications to the concerned MROs, and said that the government would finalise the beneficiaries after conducting verification within a week.
He said that the initiative would primarily help the beedi workers of the Medak, Nizamabad and Karimnagar districts. (INN)