Vijayawada: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has released Rs 97.76 crore towards bi-annual disbursal of financial assistance to 68,990 leftover beneficiaries of welfare schemes for the July to December 2023 period
Jagan Mohan Reddy said the YSRC government has been undertaking this bi-annual exercise regularly to ensure that no eligible beneficiary missed the benefits of the state’s welfare schemes.
Releasing the amount in online mode from the Camp Office here on Friday, the Chief Minister said the amount would be directly credited to the bank accounts of beneficiaries who failed to get the benefits under the YSR EBC Nestham, Jagananna Amma Vodi, YSR Nethanna Nestham, YSR Kapu Nestham, YSR Vahana Mitra, Jagananna Chedodu, YSR Kalyanamasthu-Shadi Tohfa and YSR Matsyakara Bharosa schemes.
He explained that so far, the state government spent Rs 1,744.76 crore towards providing financial assistance to the leftover beneficiaries under the bi-annual disbursal process.
In the last 55 months, the government has incurred as high as Rs 2,46,551 crore by way of helping the needy under these welfare schemes. The government, he said, added 1,17,161 beneficiaries to the list of social pensioners, issued Aarogyasri health cards to 6,314 more persons, new rice cards to 1,11,321 persons and house site pattas to 34,623 people who missed the benefits from August to December 2023.
The CM said officials, starting from village and ward secretariat staff to district collectors, are working with a higher sense of responsibility in this regard.
Urban development minister Adimulapu Suresh said the Chief Minister had, through DBT mode, released about Rs 2.46 lakh crore to the beneficiaries of welfare schemes so far. Jagan Mohan Reddy noticed the hardships of the people everywhere during his Padayatra and designed schemes to help them, he said.
Education minister Botsa Satyanarayana, municipal administration minister A. Suresh, Chief Secretary K.S. Jawahar Reddy, special CSs Ajay Jain and Ananta Ramu, principal secretaries Praveen Prakash and K. Sunita, commissioners Arunkumar, Surya Kumari and Mudavath Nayak, social welfare director K. Vijaya, civil supplies director Vijay Sunita and other senior officials were present.
