Rs 5,036 Crores Spent on Welfare Schemes: KCR

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today asserted that Telangana was the number one State in the country in amounts spent on welfare.

He said that the government was laying a strong foundation first to build Telangana afresh, and that was why progress was delayed initially.

Replying to a short discussion in the State Assembly on the welfare of the down-trodden sections in the State, he said that Rs 5,036 crores had been spent on welfare so far.

The government was planning to spend a further Rs 8,080 crores for the Schedule Castes alone, he added.

He also disclosed to the House the sector-wise allocation of funds for welfare - Rs 1,105 crores for minorities, Rs 100 crores for advocates, Rs 10 crores for journalists, and Rs 2,037 crores for women and child welfare.

He also stated that the TRS' flagship project of double bedroom houses for the poor would start soon. Rs 4,055 crores would be spent to construct 65,000 houses for the poor, he said.

By the time the next elections for panchayat raj happened, all tribal hamlets would become village panchayats, he promised.

The TRS government would also spend Rs 33,986 crores on welfare while the previous government spent only Rs 13,572 crores, KCR said.