Khammam: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti government is planning to integrate all welfare schemes to avoid duplication and fulfil its promise of giving of three acres of land to landless Scheduled Caste and Tribe families.
It asked the district collector to submit a comprehensive report by June 23 on the welfare schemes being implemented in the district.
The government is planning to give shape to these programmes at the district collectors’ meeting on June 24. Though different welfare programmes are being implemented for SCs/STs, over 70 per cent of them are below poverty line.
Collector S. Sri Naresh directed all department heads to submit their reports and explain the lacunae in the schemes. The information collected so far has revealed that there were 78,460 SC families in the district and about 39,849 of them were identified as landless.
The government directed the collector to evolve a plan to give three acres of land to each Scheduled Caste family.
On the other hand, the government noticed the misuse of funds being allocated under various welfare programs for scheduled castes and tribes. Collector Sri Naresh said, “The aim of the government is every paise being released under welfare schemes has to be reached to the beneficiary”.
