Will strive to better the lives of Dalits, says KCR

Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao said that just as he had participated in the separate Telangana movement by sacrificing everything, he would work to make a success of Dalit Bandhu.

“I will strive for comprehensive development of the Dalits until my last breath,” he said while chairing a review meeting with ministers T. Harish Rao, Koppula Eshwar and Gangula Kamalakar and district collector R.V. Karnan here.

The CM said that society had discriminated against Dalits and made them live in poverty. “This is a vicious practice that has existed for a long time. At least now, Telangana society should eschew such a bad tradition and work for the economic and social uplift of the Dalits,” he said.

“With a firm determination, we achieved separate statehood and are developing the state. With the same spirit, we all should work for the development of the Dalits. If Telangana society is determined to do something, then it happens,” the CM said. Rao said.

“We renovated the irrigation sector and made agriculture a festival. We were able to supply uninterrupted power. As a result, those who went for labour work are now able to produce around 3 crore tonnes of food grains,” he said.

The state is having meaningful and qualitative development. “From hunger deaths, we transformed the state into Annapurna. Caste-based professions which were about to be extinct were given a new life by way of investing crores of rupees. The government supported the people in rearing sheep, fish farming etc and helped the weavers community alongside the MBCs, SCs, STs, BCs and Minorities.”

The CM said, “By introducing the Rythu Bandhu and Rythu Bima Schemes, the state government has given the much-needed relief to the agriculture sector.”