SIDDIPET: Siddipet will host the launch of the Telangana government's new Indiramma family life insurance scheme. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy will launch it at a public meeting on November 19, Indira Gandhi's birth anniversary. Ministers Ponnam Prabhakar and Vivek Venkataswamy, government whip Adi Srinivas and Collector Haimavathi inspected three or four sites in the town on Tuesday and finalised the venue.
The scheme
- Life insurance cover of ₹5 lakh for each eligible family
- Door-to-door survey from November 20 to 30; village Indiramma committees will collect applications, to be verified by tahsildars and panchayat secretaries
- The second phase of free Indiramma sarees, in a parrot-green shade, also starts at the meeting
Ponnam Prabhakar said the government was implementing all its election promises within three years. Vivek Venkataswamy claimed no other state had built Indiramma houses on Telangana's scale. The government said around the time of last week's cabinet meeting that about 2.25 lakh Indiramma houses had been completed. Eligibility rules and premium details have not yet been announced.
The opposition BRS has meanwhile demanded that all mandals be declared drought-hit. Former minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao on Monday asked the Chief Minister to release financial aid to farmers and rejected his claim that nothing was done in ten years of BRS rule. A preliminary official assessment presented to a cabinet sub-committee last month found 358 mandals hit by drought.
