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'Congress will re-launch Pranahita-Chevella'
HYDERABAD: Deputy chief minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Sunday announced that the Congress govt will extend all necessary support to the woman members of self-help groups (SHGs) to establish micro-industries in each of the 119 assembly constituencies in the state, with interest-free loans being disbursed to them.
The Congress govt will come out with more welfare schemes, he added.
In the first year of the Congress govt, Rs 21,632 crore interest-free loans were given to SHG women. The distribution of cheques for disbursement of another Rs 20,000 crore 'vaddi leni runalu' (interest-free loans) commenced on July 12 and would continue up to July 20.
"When chief minister A Revanth Reddy and I announced that the Congress govt will make one crore women crorepatis, many people mocked us.
But we are on our way to achieving the target by disbursing 1 lakh crore interest-free loans to one crore women in a period of five years," Bhatti said, addressing a public meeting in Mancherial.
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He also announced that the Congress would re-launch the Ambedkar Pranahita-Chevella project as part of the special development plan for Adilabad district and provide irrigation water to lakhs of acres. Revanth Reddy and the entire state cabinet were now focusing on the development of Mancherial and the entire Adilabad district, he added.
"We have already given the solar power plants and solar energy production projects to women SHGs. The previous BRS govt utterly neglected the interest-free loans to women, due to which the SHG groups suffered a lot. ," he said. "The Congress govt is fulfilling all its promises, one after the other," Bhatti said.
