Telangana government has decided to build accommodations for pilgrims in Sabrimala in Kerala and Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The decision was taken by the Telangana cabinet in a meeting on Thursday. The government has also extended a grant of Rs 3 lakh for poor beneficiaries to build a house near their own land under a scheme. While addressing the press conference after the meeting, the states Finance Minister T Harish Rao said that Rs 25 lakh to each building has been sanctioned for the project to build the accommodations for the pilgrims in Sabrimala and Varanasi.The decision by the state government has been taken to address the difficulties faced by the pilgrims from Telangana in finding the lodging during their visit to Varanasi and Sabrimala. He also stated that under the project Gruha Lakshmi the grant of Rs 3 lakh will be given to four lakh people who want built their houses near their own land. The government has sanctioned around 3,000 houses each in all 119 constituencies along with another 43,000 houses under the State quota. Rao also said that their team will soon start finding the beneficiaries for the scheme and also to quickly take up construction of the houses. In another decision, the cabinet has decided to extend the BRSs flagship Dalit welfare scheme Dalit Bandhu to 1.3 lakh people. Each beneficiary will get a grant of 10 lakh each under this scheme. He also said that the scheme was sanctioned on August 16, 2021, and the cabinet has decided to hold the annual function every year from now onwards.Harish Rao, a nephew of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, said the Cabinet has decided to distribute podu lands (shifting cultivation) pattas (titles) of four lakh acres of podu (shifting cultivation) lands to 1,55,393 beneficiaries. Rs 4,463 crore has also been sanctioned towards sheep distribution to more than 3.6 lakh beneficiaries across the state.On April 14, the first law minister of India, the government, he claimed, would erect a 125-foot statue of B. R. Ambedkar in Hyderabad. One of the centrepiece initiatives of the BRS administration is the enormous Ambedkar statue. He continued that the state Cabinet also resolved to cancel loans for low-income housing worth Rs 4,000 crore that were approved by the previous Congress and TDP administrations.In the meeting they decision to forgive the loans taken out by recipients of Andhra Pradeshs previous Congress and TDP governments weaker segment housing programmes were also approved by the Cabinet. The State government has cleared almost 4,000 crore rupees worth of loans related to roughly 30 lakh dwellings approved by previous administrations, greatly easing the burden on those who received assistance from banks.Mana ooru – Mana badi schemeThe programme was launched in March 2022. Apart from these schemes, the Telangana government has many other programmes. One of them is Mana ooru – Mana badi aimed at all-round development and creation of effective infrastructure in schools across the State by setting up digital classrooms, constructing additional classrooms and which will benefit 19.84 lakh children of 26,065 schools in the state of Telangana.Nutrition kits for womenAlso, the Telangana Government recently unveiled another ground-breaking programme called KCR Nutrition Kits, which aims to lower anemia and raise pregnant womens hemoglobin levels. Each package comes with 500 gms of ghee, a cup, three bottles of iron syrup, a kg of dates (khajoor), and a kg of nutritional mix powder. In nine Telangana areas where anemia was prevalent, the kits were given out to expectant mothers. On December 21, 2022, Health Minister T. Harish Rao officially introduced the initiative in Kamareddy.
