The help is mostly intended for the MBC communities, who still depend on their traditional avocations to make a living, as they need help.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao. (Twitter)
Taking advantage of being the ruling party, the BRS is ready to set the ball rolling to please the Backward Classes (BCs), a group that no political party can afford to ignore, as they constitute more than 50 percent of the population.
With Assembly elections looming large, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao seems to have seized the day by rolling out the dole of ₹1 lakh to each eligible BC beneficiary to help them buy implements necessary for practising their traditional avocation.
Already about 5.28 lakh BCs have applied for financial assistance.
The help is mostly intended for the most backward classes (MBC) communities, who are still dependent on their traditional avocations to make a living, as they are in dire need of help.
The ₹1 lakh assistance scheme does not cover those who belong to BC castes which are already the beneficiaries of the government schemes like sheep and fish fingerling distribution, Kalyana Lakshmi, and support for overseas studies.
A majority of the castes that would benefit from the new scheme would be from among the MBCs who include the Rajakas (washermen), Nayi Branmins (barbers), Kummari (potters), Kamsali (goldsmiths), and so on.
The move came close on the heels of easing out of BC leader Bandi Sanjay Kumar from the helm of Telangana BJP and appointing Union Minister G Kishan Reddy in his place.
The Munnuru Kapu community to which Sanjay belongs feels estranged after his unceremonious exit and now they seem to be wondering whether they have a friend in the BJP.
In May, the Telangana BJP came out with its BC declaration in which it promised allocation of funds in the state budget proportionate to the population of backward classes, constitutional status to the state BC Commission, and importance to BC leaders in filling nominated posts.
The Congress is yet to get its act together to get the BCs’ attention. It proposes to hold a BC Garjana to explain what it intends to do for the BCs.
Meanwhile, making most of the confusion in the Congress and recalibration of political strategy in the BJP in enlisting the support of the BCs, the BRS is exploiting the situation to its advantage.
The first batch of beneficiaries will receive financial help from the government on 15 July. This way, on the 15th of every month, the government intends to hand over the help to the BCs who are found to be eligible for its largess.
The government has already released ₹400 crore for the implementation of the scheme.
The government has asked the collectors to ensure that the beneficiaries would use the money to get necessary implements that would be useful for their avocations.
The government intends to pass on the benefit to at least 50 families in each of the 119 Assembly segments in the first phase.
This way, on every 15th of the month, the financial assistance would be handed over to the beneficiaries that the collectors would finalise.
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