Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s pet scheme Kalyana Lakshmi for providing financial assistance of Rs 51,000 to girls aged above 18 years who are getting married, has been getting poor response.
Though the scheme was launched on October 2, on the occasion of Dasara, only five applications have been received so far. Of them, four were from Nalgonda and one from Warangal. There is also confusion over whether the earlier Bangaru Talli scheme, which was enacted by the N. Kiran Kumar Reddy government is still in force. Thousands have submitted applications for the scheme and are awaiting assistance from the government.
Even the Telangana ministers goofed up in the Assembly on Monday by giving divergent statements on Bangaru Talli. Congress MLA D.K. Aruna, who raised the issue, asked the government to clarify whether Bangaru Talli was in force. Finance minister Etela Rajender replied, “The state which enacted the scheme has gone. With it, that scheme has also gone.”
