Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday announced a hike of Rs 1000 per month in the physically challenged person pensions. Announcing at Mancherial public meeting, the chief minister said the physically challenged persons would now get Rs 4116 per month after the increase.
Speaking on the occasion the chief minister said the BRS government is for welfare and it was aiming to expand the Singareni coal mining activity in all the mineral reserves in the State. Speaking about the Singareni coal mines KCR said the Congress and BJP were trying to trim the collieries for their vested interests. On the controversial comments of Congress leaders about the dumping of Dharani portal in Bay of Bengal the chief minister made a clarion call to the public to dump those leaders in Bay of Bengal if they continue to mince similar kind of statements.
The chief minister spoke in length about the welfare programmes such as Dalit Bandhu, BC welfare programme for artisans, sheep rearing scheme second phase during his speech and cautioned the people not to fall prey to the gimmicks and false promises of parties that got no face value among the public. Ministers Vemula Prashant Reddy, Indrakaran Reddy, Koppula Eeshwar, Gangula Kamalakar , whip Balka Suman, MP Santhosh Rao, MLcs, MLA Divakar Rao and other state level corporation chair persons attended public meeting.