AP Cabinet go-ahead for Chandranna Pelli Kanuka

​Amaravati: The AP State cabinet, which met here on Monday, cleared Chandranna Pelli Kanuka, a scheme meant for providing financial assistance to brides of different castes.

Apart from Chandranna Pelli Kanuka, the cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, also cleared a policy for promoting gaming and animation sector by creating infrastructure in Visakhapatnam in an area of 40 acres, proposal for exemption of stamp and registration duty for houses that are being constructed under Pradhan Manthri Awaas Yojana and upgrading Telugu Ganga which supplies drinking water to Chennai into Irrigation Project with an outlay of Rs 6,671 crore, among others. By upgrading Telugu Ganga, parched lands of 5.75 lakh acres in Kadapa, Kurnool and Chittoor districts will get irrigation facility.

Briefing media-persons on cabinet decisions, Information and Public Relations Minister K Srinivasulu said that as part of Chandranna Pelli Kanuka, which would be launched on Chandrababu Naidu’s birthday on April 20, Rs 75,000 would be paid to the bride of either SC or ST community marrying a groom of a different caste, Rs 50,000 to a BC bride if she goes in for an inter caste marriage and Rs 1 lakh if either or both the bride and bridegroom are physically challenged.

If an SC bride marries a boy who also belongs to SC, she would get Rs 40,000 as gift and Rs 30,000 if a BC girl marries a BC boy. The state government is expected to spend up to Rs 100 crore for providing financial incentive to the BC brides, Srinivasulu said. An institution by name Kalyana Mitra will be created to ensure effective processing of applications and payment of incentives to the brides in time. 

Srinivasulu said that a five-member ministers panel has been set up to supervise arrangements for the day-long fast by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu at IGMC stadium in Vijayawada on his birthday on April 20. The ministers would also monitor hunger strikes by ministers and party workers in their respective constituencies. The five-member ministers’ panel comprises Kala Venkata Rao, Nara Lokesh, Devineni Umamaheswara Rao, Kollu Ravindra and Nakka Ananda Babu.