Govt to Launch These Two More Guarantees on February 27 or 29
Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday directed the officials to make necessary arrangements immediately for the implementation of the Gruha Jyothi and Cooking Gas cylinder at Rs 500 schemes.
Hyderabad: Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday directed the officials to make necessary arrangements immediately for the implementation of the Gruha Jyothi and Cooking Gas cylinder at Rs 500 schemes.
Tentatively, the Chief Minister has decided to launch the two guarantees on February 27 or 29th. On the occasion, he issued clear instructions to the officials to ensure that all those who have applied during the Praja Palana programme avail the benefits of the two guarantees.
Revanth Reddy along with Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka held a review meeting with the Cabinet Sub-Committee at the Secretariat here on Thursday. Ministers N Uttam Kumar Reddy, D Sridhar Babu, Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and Chief Advisor to Chief Minister Vemnarender Reddy also participated in the meeting.
The State government has already been implementing two of the six Guarantees- Mahalakshmi scheme, which provides free bus travel for women on TSRTC buses and enhanced the Arogyasri scheme limit to Rs 10 lakh from Rs 5 lakh.
Now, the Chief Minister has decided to introduce two more guarantees – Gruha Jyothi and Rs 500 Gas cylinder schemes.
The Cabinet Sub-Committee has discussed in detail the arrangements which are being made for implementation of the two schemes and procedures to be followed in the execution of the two guarantees.
During the meeting, the Chief Minister ordered the officials to extend Rs 500 gas cylinder scheme benefit to all eligible applicants received from the ‘Praja Palana’ programme.
He also enquired the State Finance and Civil Supplies department officials about the challenges and hurdles to be faced and the possibilities in disbursing the gas subsidy benefit either directly into the accounts of the beneficiaries or to the gas agency.
The Chief Minister emphasized that a user-friendly mechanism should be adopted where the beneficiary should get the cylinder by paying Rs 500 only and asked the officials to hold talks with the gas distribution agencies.
“Arrangements should be made to pay the subsidy amount immediately on behalf of the government to the agencies,” Revanth Reddy said.
The Chief Minister directed the officials of the Energy department to implement the Gruha Jyothi scheme in a transparent manner without a scope of doubts and misconceptions.
Officials were given clear instructions to extend the scheme to all those who possessed a white ration card and consume below 200 units per month for domestic needs only. The Energy department has been asked to issue ‘Zero’ electricity bills to all the eligible beneficiaries of the Gruha jyothi scheme from the first week of March.
Revanth Reddy suggested that the officials should give an opportunity to the applicants to rectify any errors like wrong card numbers and power connection numbers mentioned in the applications submitted during the praja palana.
“This will help the applicants, who got rejected, to avail the scheme. The electricity bill collection centers and service centers will undertake the correction of the wrong details in the applications,” the Chief Minister suggested.
He also asked the Energy officials to carry out a mass campaign through flexies so that all the people are aware of the scheme implementation in every village. The Gruha jyothi scheme benefit will be provided to all the eligible people who have corrected the mistakes from next month.
The Chief Minister entrusted the officials with the responsibility of ensuring all the eligible people avail the scheme benefit.
Officials were also instructed to open regular counters at MPDO and Tahsildar offices to receive applications continuously from those who did not apply in the Praja Palana programme.
State Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari, Finance Special Chief Secretary K Ramakrishna Rao, Civil Supplies Commissioner DS Chauhan, TRANSCO and GENCO CMD Rizvi, CM Principal Secretary Sheshadri and other officials participated in the meeting.
