KARIMNAGAR: With Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday announcing resumption of Sheep Rearing Scheme (SRS) in the state, 36,149 beneficiaries belonging to erstwhile Karimnagar district, who could not get sheep in the earlier two phases, are pinning hopes on finally getting their sheep.
The state government had introduced SRS in 2017 to economically benefit shepherd families, whose livelihood is dependent on rearing sheep. The government also wanted to revive the livestock economy in the state.
Under the scheme, beneficiaries had to pay 25 percent of the cost, while the government would extend the remaining 75 percent as subsidy for purchasing the sheep.
After launch of SRS, officials in the erstwhile Karimnagar district received applications from shepherd families and selected 85,343 of them for distribution of sheep in two phases. In the first phase, they gave 40,439 sheep units out of the targeted 42,792 beneficiaries. Of these, 9,739 units were distributed…