Chief Minister calls for short duration welfare schemes

Amaravati: Aiming to provide maximum benefits to a large number of population in this election year, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu directed the officials to ensure short duration welfare schemes.

The Chief Minister held a review on progress of implementation of SCs, STs and BCs welfare schemes in the state at the Secretariat on Wednesday.

He also interacted with the district collectors and ground-level officials too, through teleconference, during the meeting. Naidu said that this year, the officials must focus on the welfare schemes from which the people will get maximum benefits in a short span of time.

Suggesting that officials prepare district specific welfare schemes, he said that the government must do whatever the public want to do. “This year is an exam year. We have to effectively implement all the welfare schemes. By December-end, we should ensure cent per cent implementation of all welfare schemes,” he explained to the officials.

Each and every scheme should reach the all the targeted people in this year, he added. At the same time, it would be the responsibility of the government officials to create awareness among public on the ongoing and new welfare schemes, he said. The welfare corporations must focus on the bank-linked welfare schemes and the cooperation from the bankers to the beneficiaries, he suggested.

Interacting with Visakhapatnam RDO in teleconference on the implementation of welfare schemes, the Chief Minister enquired about the practical problems facing by officials while implementing schemes at ground level. He said that the produce from Girijan Cooperation must be encouraged at national level and for that the concerned officials must prepare suitable plans.