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Telangana govt to provide Rs 10 lakh financial assistance to Dalit families

 An all-party meeting has unanimously decided to send Rs 10 lakh financial assistance directly to the bank accounts of Dalit beneficiaries to make them financially self-sufficient

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An all-party meeting has unanimously decided to send Rs 10 lakh financial assistance directly to the bank accounts of Dalit beneficiaries under the Chief Minister Dalit Empowerment Programme to the eligible beneficiaries to make them financially self-sufficient and enable independent decision making.

According to the Telangana Chief Minister’s office, in the first phase, the assistance would be given to 100 families selected from each of the 119 Assembly Constituencies. For this, the all-party meeting under the chairmanship of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao decided to earmark Rs 1,200 crore for the Chief Minister Empowerment Programme and to give financial assistance directly to the bank accounts of the selected dalit beneficiaries to their bank accounts as was done in the case of Rythu Bandhu Scheme.

The all-party meeting felt that the proposed CM Dalit Empowerment Programme would bring in a qualitative change in the lives of beneficiaries and the programmes launched by the CM and his thoughts on “Dalits” have become a role model for the country. The meeting is of the opinion that the CM Dalit Empowerment Programme would further change the lives of beneficiaries for the better. The CM said that the all-party meeting was convened to make them stakeholders to stand unitedly by the Dalits, remove their inferiority and bring in a qualitative change in their thought process and attitude.

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