Telangana State Council of Communist Party of India (CPI) has urged the State government to earmark Rs 500 crore and take up house construction for Pancha Vritthidharulu (people of five communities).
CPI Telangana State secretary Chada Venkat Reddy has addressed a letter to Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in this regard on Sunday. He said 90 percent of the people of these five communities were living in pathetic conditions with illiteracy and object poverty. The people of these five communities became jobless due to globalization and privatization. He said the people of these communities living in Warangal and Nalgonda districts were committing suicides due to lack of work. He also alleged that the State government was showing step-motherly attitude towards these people in introducing schemes for their welfare and in providing free power supply, state-of-the-art technology equipments and marketing.
Demanding that the government earmark budget to the Corporations set up for them as the people of these communities have 10 percent population in the State, Chada asked the government to appoint an experts committee to study their problems. He asked the government to provide equipment on 50 percent subsidy and provide financial assistance to them. He also urged the government to construct buildings in towns and mandal headquarters for these five communities and provide free education, medical treatment, scholarships and so on. The government has to extend Rs 2 to 5 lakh to the bereaved families of those died in accidents and suicides. He also urged the government to extend old age pension of Rs 2,000 to those above 50 years of these communities and provide pension of Rs 2000 to widows and handicapped people. (NSS)
