Rs.32.92 Cr released for Minorities Welfare schemes

Govt. of Telangana released Rs.32.92 Cr to the Department of Minorities for the implementation of its various welfare schemes. Ms. D. Aruna, IAS, Incharge Secretary of the Dept. of Minorities issued two separate GO’s Rs. 32, 78,36,000 were released as the installment of 2nd quarter of the budget for the financial year 2015-16.

Director of the Dept of Minorities Welfare has been authorized to draw this amount and disburse it for implementing the welfare programmes. Urdu Academy gets Rs.13.75 Lakh as grant-in-aid under non-plan expenditure. Under this head of account, a sum of Rs.55 lakh was allocated out of which the first installment has now been released. Rs.27.50 lakh would be released later during the current financial year.