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Package for rehabilitation of weavers sought

By Our Staff Reporter

KARIMNAGAR, AUG. 31. The Bharatiya Janata Party district president, P Sugunakar Rao, has asked the State Government to announce a special package for the suitable rehabilitation of distressed weavers, who are resorting to suicide.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, he said the Government should announce ex gratia to weavers on a par with farmers in the State and also provide alternative employment to the widows of weavers, free education to their children, house sites, widow pensions and Antyodaya Anna Yojana scheme for their rehabilitation.

Ministers flayed

Expressing concern over the spate of suicides by weavers in the district, he flayed the Union Minister, K Chandrashekhara Rao, and the Endowments Minister, M Satyanarayana Rao, for not visiting Sircilla, where there was high incidence of suicides by the powerloom weavers, to console the families and take up relief measures. He flayed the Congress party, which had raised a hue and cry over weavers' suicides when they were in the opposition and remaining silent after attaining power.

Claiming that the former Union Minister, Ch Vidyasagar Rao, had taken up several relief measures for the rehabilitation of weavers in Sircilla, he said that they had ensured 50 per cent power subsidy to the powerlooms, Antyodaya Anna Yojana scheme to several thousands of weavers, sanctioned a textile park, provided employment through Food for Work scheme, etc.

Dharna to be staged

He asked the State Government to take up the proposed cloud-seeding programme in the district by installing a radar at the earliest to protect the standing crops from withering. He also expressed concern over increasing ISI activities in the State due to the lackadaisical attitude of the police.

The BJP Kisan Morcha district unit would stage a dharna in front of the Collectorate on Wednesday, demanding the Government to regularise all agricultural connections and provide free power to all farmers.

He also said that the BJP would submit memoranda to all the MROs in the district on September 2 demanding the Government to celebrate the `Telangana Liberation day' on September 17 and include Telangana liberation movement in the school syllabus.

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