Hyderabad: As the battlelines are being ready for the Munugode byelection, officials perceived to be under huge tension to implement the Dalit Bandhu blueprint in “saturation mode”, encompassing the SC population in the constituency.
Ultimate 38 households of the 100 identified beneficiaries hang been covered under the blueprint to this point. The TRS seeks to draw the nearly 40,000 Dalit voters in the constituency and hoped that their pork up would tip the scales in its favour, sources acknowledged.
The authorities used to be on the level of push the premise of including your complete SC population under the blueprint, according to legitimate sources, even supposing simplest one village used to be covered as a “pilot project” unless now, and manufacture determined virtually the total households belonging to the SCs became beneficiaries. “The blueprint will most likely be performed for your complete constituency and would possibly perchance unexcited be covered in saturation mode,” acknowledged an legitimate of the SC Corporation.
Jamastanpally, a hamlet with a population of about 1,200 and located 5 km from Munugode metropolis, used to be the first discipline to be covered. Spherical 38 out of 39 households hang been covered under the blueprint. Chimiryala with 35 Dalit households and Gudimalkapur with 25 hang been two extra villages in the Samsthan Narayanpur mandal that hang been identified for the blueprint. Nonetheless, it has been abandoned for the time being, and no assorted village is currently listed in the constituency.
Interestingly, the legitimate maintained that there weren’t any eligibility requirements or determined specs for figuring out the beneficiaries, and that they hadn’t yet got determined instructions on this. “Even at Jamastanpally, there hang been no particular instructions, but we tried to follow some pointers, equivalent to giving poverty priority according to income stages (decrease than Rs 2 lakh)”.
“The TRS will for sure replicate the Huzurabad model wherever there’s a re-election. This would selectively hand out several freebies and schemes equivalent to Dalit Bandhu. It be attention-grabbing to display that proper 400 of the 18,000 Huzurabad households hang been in a position to abilities the funds. The funds remained frozen and weren’t accessible to the supreme households,” acknowledged Koppu Basha, deliver president of the SC Morcha of the BJP.
Whereas the Congress alleged that owing to an absence of proper screening mechanism, TRS leaders hang been influencing and guaranteeing that those discontinuance to them in finding benefitted. Some others who are overseeing the implementation of the blueprint hang been getting their reduce.
“With most recent political inclinations in Munugode, the Treasury division has been already alerted about the blueprint’s implementation in the constituency. This is politically motivated and valid beneficiaries are cornered in the process. Moreover, wherever the blueprint used to be performed earlier, the beneficiaries paid discontinuance to Rs 2 lakh as price to middlemen,” observed N. Pritam, Congress SC Cell chairman.
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