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Rice scheme to be launched in Medak

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The scheme will benefit over 6 lakh families; Arogya Sri to be launched on April 15

Health insurance scheme to cover 11,000 families
Collector for streamlining old age pensions

Sangareddy: Around 6.26 lakh white ration card families would benefit from the Rs. 2-a-kg rice scheme to be launched in the district from April 9.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday Medak district Collector Piyush Kumar said that a mandal level monitoring system would be in place by that time to restrict black-marketing of the scheme. He said that the administration would release a fixed quantity of rice sufficient for the number of families eligible for the scheme in a particular village.

The Arogya Sri programme which would benefit 11,000 families would be launched on April 15. The DRDA has already completed appointing 77 Arogya Mitras to each one of the selected Primary health centres in the district and a district coordinator to coordinate the effort. While health problems of the beneficiaries have been identified earlier, another camp would be held to identify those who require special care from big hospitals, the Collector said.

Sharing his experience after visiting three revenue divisions after taking over as Collector, Piyush said that there is a need to streamline the distribution of old age pensions. He pointed out that implementing authorities have to realise that the pension scheme is for the needy and not just for every one as the district already crossed the mark of 2,28,000 pensions. He said that he would also concentrate on achieving 100 per cent sanitation by encouraging panchayats to aim for Nirmal Gram purskar. An exhibition on the various options of low cost septic latrines would be organised soon for the beneficiaries.

District plan

Meanwhile, the District review committee that met here at the Velugu office has set a target of Rs. 453 crore towards loans to farm sector for the coming financial year.

According to a press release the financial institutions in the district have so far disbursed Rs. 188 crore during the first three months of 2008 and are ready to give another Rs. 188 crore benefiting a total of 1,35,000 farmers. The district Collector who chaired the meeting with the bankers and the lead bank wanted them to achieve 100 per cent target with regard to disbursement of loans to farmers. He wanted participation of all concerned departments while preparing the district credit plan.

Similarly, the 2,300 Adarsha Rytulu selected in the district would also participate in the planning of farm credit plans. The Lead bank manager Srinivas Gupta said that 17,300 SHGs received financial assistance worth Rs. 212 crore and 184 branches gave away 84,741 Kisan credit cards to farmers and disbursed Rs. 288 crore credit through the cards. NABARD assistant general manager Krishna Murty and RBI representative S.B. Bhakta also attended the meeting.

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