Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao will launch pension plan 'Aasara' meant for old age, widows and disabled in Mahabubnagar Saturday. Meanwhile, the rest of his cabinet colleagues would be the distribution of pensions to beneficiaries in the rest of the nine districts in the same day.
While people and old aged widows would get Rs 1,000, disabled people with physical disabilities, including the 1500 skeletal, fluorosis would be affected in Nalgonda district rupees a month by the government. Hiking pension was one of the main promises included in the manifest accordingly TRS and TRS government took steps to implement within six months of taking office.
This scheme would kick off at 11 am in Kottur village in Mahabubnagar district Shadnagar mandal of the Chief Minister set to deliver pension amounts (in cash) to the beneficiaries of the various categories.
Elaborating details in a press conference held at the office TRSLP, Panchayat Raj Minister K Taraka Rama Rao said arrangements were made to distribute pensions to at least 500 to 1,000 beneficiaries in each electoral district in November 8. He said that one family could be entitled to three pensions from age to age, widows and disabled if the members were entitled to it. However, the old age pension since no two members of the same family, he said.
Pensions widower was walked five times to Rs 1,000 from Rs 200 earlier amount given in the amount of state pensions and undivided like-wise for people with disabilities was improved three times since the age of Rs.500 to Rs 1500, he said.
Because of this decision, the likely burden on the government stood at about Rs 3,000 crore. This was almost three times and average budget of Rs 833 million rupees allocated for pensions in the state of Andhra Pradesh former, KTR said.
He said the process of finalizing the beneficiaries still going on and will be completed in late November. Reach was given to the authorities not to insist on Aadhaar cards or documents especially for widows in the preparation of the list of beneficiaries after the preliminary investigation. However, the pension would be given three months time to submit related documents, he added.
He said 99 percent of applicants would be given pensions. Moreover, the last list will not include even a single illegal beneficiary, said.
Meanwhile, a press release from the Office of the Chief Minister stated that Naini Narasimha Reddy and Ali Mahmood distribute pensions to the beneficiaries in Hyderabad while Eatala Rajender and K Taraka Rama Rao in Karimnagar would do the same and like wise T Harish Rao on the Medak district.
