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YSR announces Rs.10-crore assistance for SHGs

– Photo: G.N.Rao

I’m here! A boy waving his hand from the crowd at a public meeting addressed by the Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy at Madhira on Sunday.

KHAMMAM: The Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy said “it is time to draw a comparison” between the four-and-half-years of the Congress rule and nine-and-half-years of the TDP government.

Addressing a well attended public meeting at Indiramma grounds at Madhira, he said the Congress government succeeded where the previous regime failed.

The government remained pro-farmer all through and its policies helped in reviving vibrantly the dwindling fortunes of the peasant community. From loan waiver to Minimum Support Price for their crops, the government had demonstrated amply its commitment to the well being of the farmers.

He questioned as to why the NDA government or even the TDP, one of its constituents, failed to think of the loan waiver or any other measure that could have safeguarded the interests of the farmers. Over 4 crore farmers were benefited by the loan waiver in the country.

Some 63 lakh farmers had availed waiver of loans to the tune of Rs. 11,350 crores in the State alone while another 3 lakh farmers were extended incentive for being prompt in repayment of their agriculture loans.

The implementation of the NREGP had given additional income to the strengthening finances the rural households rather substantially. Every individual was necessarily given 100 of employment thus ensuring an additional income ranging from Rs. 8,000 to Rs.10,000.

There are no contractors involved in the implementation of the NREGS works. There are no middlemen either. The wages were being remitted to the postal accounts and bank accounts of the beneficiaries directly. It had altogether been a different story with the implementation of the food for work in the TDP rule. The yellow shirts had enjoyed all the benefits.

The Chief Minister said that the support extended to the self help groups in the State was intended to make the women self reliant. They should not feel the need to look to the help of the moneylender. Every woman must become a ‘lakhier’. The Chief Minister announced that the self- help groups in every mandal would be extended an assistance of Rs. 10 crores this year. Women empowerment was high on the agenda of the State.

Union Minister of State for Woman and Child Development, Renuka Chowdhury, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Sambhani Chandrasekhar.

The Minister for Vaidya Vidhana Parishad, Vanama Venkateswar Rao, Minister for Tribal Welfare, D.S. Redya Naidu, R. Venkata Reddy, Jalagam Venkat Rao, Katta Venkata Narsaiah, all MLAs, Bhatti Vikramarka and P. Sudhakar Reddy, MLCs and Zilla Parishad chaiperson, G. Vijayalakshmi and the District Collector, Sashibhushan Kumar were among those who took part.

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