The Telugu Desam Social gathering (TDP) authorities, led by Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, will launch a scheme offering free cooking gasoline cylinders to eligible girls. The ‘Deepam’ scheme, a key ballot promise among the many ‘Tremendous Six ensures’ the TDP had introduced in the course of the election marketing campaign earlier this yr, might be carried out from October 31, coinciding with the Deepavali pageant.
Throughout a high-level assembly on the State Secretariat on Monday, CM Naidu reviewed the rules for the scheme’s implementation with Civil Provides Minister Nadendla Manohar, senior officers, and representatives of Indian Oil Company, Hindustan Petroleum Company, and Bharat Petroleum Company. Naidu directed officers to make sure clean execution with none complaints from the beneficiaries.
He reportedly mentioned on the assembly that the state authorities will implement the welfare schemes regardless of monetary constraints. “The cash that the ladies had been till now spending on gasoline cylinders could be utilised for different home functions,” the CM mentioned, including that such schemes would profit the poor, particularly girls.
3 Free Fuel Cylinders Per 12 months To Value Rs 2,684 Cr Yearly
The Chief Minister instructed officers to begin reserving gasoline cylinders effectively upfront, starting October 24, to make sure a seamless provide from October 31 onwards.
Beneath the Deepam scheme, eligible girls from BPL households will get three free LPG cylinders yearly. Whereas the retail value of every home gasoline cylinder is presently Rs 876, the price of three cylinders per yr might be absolutely coated by the state authorities. The Centre gives Rs 25 as a subsidy per cylinder.
The scheme is anticipated to price the state an extra Rs 2,684 crore yearly, with a complete projected expenditure of Rs 13,423 crore over the following 5 years. Earlier, the TDP authorities reopened Anna Canteens, which was one other electoral pledge.
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