Unemployment dole and other welfare measures in TRS manifesto

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: Oct 13, 2018, 21:51 IST

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The TRS will go to polls on the plank of ‘welfare and development’ which will be reflected in its poll manifesto. Unemployment youth will get dole and CM K Chandrasekhar Rao has already announced that there will be a huge increase in the pensions.

Unemployment dole and other welfare measures in TRS manifesto

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao.

HYDERABAD: The TRS will go to polls on the plank of ‘welfare and development’ which will be reflected in its poll manifesto. Unemployed youths will get dole and CM K Chandrasekhar Rao has already announced that there will be a huge increase in the pensions.
“The spirit of welfare will continue as much as the focus will be on development,” IT and municipal administration minister K T Rama Rao said on Saturday.He pointed out that 43 per cent of the budget was already taking care of welfare measures.
“The primary focus will be on jobs creation. In addition to government jobs being filled, jobs creation will continue in the private sector and then arise the question of granting dole to those still without jobs,” he said. So far, the TSipass had granted clearances for 8,013 units to be set up, he said about the measures that had been taken to create jobs in the private sector.
The minister said TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao will have a meeting with the election manifesto committee to finalise it.

What has become interesting in recent times is the Congress promising everything that the TRS has been mentioning that it would do or has already done. To a question about the possibility of the people being attracted to the promises of the Congress, K T Rama Rao said it was a question of credibility. “KCR has credibility which the opposition does not have. KCR delivered more than what was promised in the manifesto,” he said people would rather believe in KCR than any other party.

K T Rama Rao pointed out that when N T Rama Rao had promised the Rs 2 kg rice scheme when he came into politics, the Congress was quick to promise rice for Rs 1.90. “People still did not believe the Congress and voted for NTR then,” he pointed out. “KCR has the credibility which has been built by him delivering on his promises and therefore people will trust KCR,” he said.
“The ensuing assembly polls are a referendum on the TRS rule. We take it as that. Is the Congress also willing to take it as a referendum on their performance?,” he asked. “We have decided to go to the people’s court on our government’s functioning,” he said.

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Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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