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Social Welfare Minister launches Giri Putrika Kalyana Pathakam
Minister for Social Welfare Ravela Kishore Babu formally disbursed cheques worth Rs 50,000 to the beneficiaries of Giri Putrikala Kalyana Pathakam at the local ZP Council Hall here on Thursday. He claimed its a unique scheme for the Adivasi Girijan Bride and Bridegrooms in the country and it will curb child marriages among their communities in the State.
Guntur: Minister for Social Welfare Ravela Kishore Babu formally disbursed cheques worth Rs 50,000 to the beneficiaries of Giri Putrikala Kalyana Pathakam at the local ZP Council Hall here on Thursday. He claimed it’s a unique scheme for the Adivasi Girijan Bride and Bridegrooms in the country and it will curb child marriages among their communities in the State.
Speaking on the occasion, Ravela Kishore Babu said that the TDP government under the stewardship of N Chandrababu Naidu is poised to transform the very face of Adivasi communities through a plethora of schemes being implemented for Girijan welfare under the Tribal sub-plan and assured that the government is committed to eradicate illiteracy, poverty, superstitions and unemployment among the Girijans.
For the first time the government is investing Rs 2,000 crore on laying new roads in SC and ST colonies and hamlets in the tribal areas under the jurisdiction of seven ITDA's in the State. Another scheme 'Giri Goru Muddalu' is also in the offing to revolutionise the health sector of the girijan children and mothers.
Ravela said that Chief Minister has great love for the SC and ST communities and will unveil grandiose plans to educate them and place them on an equal footing with other developed communities. At the recent economic investment summit in Visakhapatnam, the Chief Minister had popularised the Araku coffee and even sanctioned Rs 520 crore for a coffee project in Araku Valley and promised to improve the lot of the Chenchus in Srisailam and other areas.
About 50 brides and grooms were given cheques worth Rs 50,000 each as an incentive for getting married at a legally approved age of 18 years and 21 years. In all 1, 515 couples registered out of whom 710 had been identified as eligible and 692 were sanctioned the incentive under the scheme. Already 375 couples were already given the incentives throughout the State.
The Minister described the government as pro-adivasis and appealed to the media and other sections to popularise the scheme so that many more could derive benefit out of the scheme. Earlier, local MLA Modugula Venugopala Reddy lauded the Minister Ravela for being the brainchild behind the conception of the scheme. He described the Adivasi culture and their attire as unique which is getting extinct.
District Collector Kantilal Dande said that the Woman and Child Welfare Department could stop 375 child marriages in the recent past and hoped that the scheme would help in bringing down child marriages to zero level. He pointed out that the Macherla, Veldurthi and Edlapalle which have tribal hamlets have poor basic amenities including drinking water problems. He urged the ITDA, Srisailam to address the same. The Social Welfare Minister later disbursed the cheques along with Pattu Cheera to the brides.
