Telangana Palle Pragathi scheme to spur inclusive growth of villagesfrom January

October 22, 2014 09:33 pm | Updated May 23, 2016 06:46 pm IST - HYDERABAD

As part of working for inclusive growth of selected

villages in Telangana the State Government will introduce “Telangana

Palle Pragathi” programme from January. The scheme will be implemented

in 1,500 selected villages of 150 mandals with the World Bank

assistance.

The decision was taken at the first executive committee meeting of the

Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) here on Wednesday.

Minister for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development K.T. Rama Rao who

chaired the meeting stated later that one-top-shops would be opened in

villages to provide citizen services to people and their management

would be handed over to educated women of the villages concerned.

“It will not only empower rural women but provide citizen services to

rural people in their villages itself”, the minister said. The scheme

was so far known as Telangana Rural Inclusive Growth Project (TRIGP).

During the discussion on enhanced social security pensions from

November, the minister stated that the beneficiaries would be given

cards to list the disbursement of their pension every month. The cards

would be given in different colours for old-aged people, widows and

physically-challenged persons.

The meeting finalised the nomenclature of “Aasara” to the social

security pensions but the final decision would be taken after

discussing it with the Chief Minister. The cards would mention the

amount the pensioners were entitled to get every month and a toll-free

phone number to call for, in case the beneficiaries had any problems

or complaints.

The minister assured that the State Government would continue

interest-free loans to women self help groups and the dues under the

scheme would be cleared soon. On the demand of SERP employees for

regularisation of their service, the meeting has taken a decision

after getting the report of a committee appointed for the purpose. It

was also decided to regularise the 36-day ‘Sakala Janula Samme’

period.

Principal Secretary (PR&RD) J. Raymond Peter, SERP Chief Executive

Officer A. Murali, Rural Development Commissioner Venkateshwarlu and

others participated.

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