Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao will transfer Rs.500 crore into the bank accounts of 5,000 Dalit families in Huzurabad constituency next month under the Dalita Bandhu scheme. Each family will receive Rs.10 lakh each.
The finance department on Thursday issued orders releasing Rs.500 crore for the purpose.
Official sources said that Chandrashekar Rao is considering August 15 for launching the scheme to commemorate the Independence Day. Works are going on at a war-footing in Huzurabad to enable the scheme.
A beneficiary can choose from a wide range of choices for self-employment such as buying a power tiller, harvester, paddy planting machines, auto-trolleys, or tractors for their farms to setting up a poultry farm, dairy farm, oil mill, grinding mill, steel, cement and bricks business, furniture shops, cloth emporiums, mobile phone shops or even tiffin centres and eateries.
Special task forces are being set up to monitor how the beneficiaries are utilising…