Hyderabad: Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy got the Cabinet’s approval for several populist initiatives like increasing the creamy layer for BCs from Rs 4.5 lakh per annum to Rs 6 lakh, sanction of Rs 65 lakh to carry out a survey relating to the proposal of including Kapus in BC, increasing the loan limit for weaker section housing, ratification of creation of 11,000 jobs and paying pension of Rs 200 each per month for people with disabilities of 20-40 per cent. The Centre had earlier restricted the pension to people with more than 40 per cent disability.
Irrigation officials gave a detailed presentation on the Brajesh Kumar Tribunal award to the Cabinet which asked the Chief Minister to convene an all-party meeting soon and take steps to pursue the pending case in Supreme Court.
The Chief Minister, meanwhile, dismissed allegations that the state had not engaged efficient advocates stating that Harish Salve and Parasaran had been representing the state in the Supreme Court.
When tourism minister Vatti Vasanth Kumar exp-lained the hardships being faced by farmers in coastal districts due to successive cyclones, the Chief Minister assured to provide adequate relief.
