Telangana Cong accuses KCR govt for insulting minority communities over subsidy loans

Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) on Monday accused the K Chandrashekar Rao headed TRS government for insulting the minority communities in the name of providing subsidy loans.
In a statement, TPCC Minorities Department Chairman Shaik Abdullah Sohail, said the TS Minorities Finance Corporation (TSMFC) has recently invited applications from candidates belonging to the minority community to provide subsidy loans.
However, he said a small amount of Rs 50 crore has been earmarked to provide loans to just 5,000 jobless youth across the state.
“The minority population in Telangana (as per the 2011 census) is 45,59,425 and it has increased significantly in the last decade. There are at least 12-15 lakh jobless youth among all the minority communities like Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Jains, but the government intends to provide a loan of about Rs. 1 lakh to just 5,000 jobless youth.
This is nothing but an open insult to all the minority communities in the State,” Sohail said.
The TRS Government did not provide a single rupee loan to minorities in the last eight years, he pointed out that nearly 1.53 lakh jobless youth had applied for a loan when TRS Government sought applications in 2015-16.
He said not a single application was cleared and then the state government stopped receiving applications.
Despite several assurances given by the Chief Minister, nothing was done to implement the economic empowerment scheme, he alleged.
”KCR must stop this humiliation of minority communities. We are not beggars and we are not seeking any alms. We want our deserved share in the development, he said.
TRS Government is sending the wrong message to all minority communities by allocating a mere Rs. 50 crore to provide loans from the Annual budget of nearly Rs. 2.50 Lakh Crore,” he said and demanded that the state government should sanction at least Rs. 1,000 crores to provide loans to at least one lakh jobless youth.
Sohail said that the Congress party would soon launch a massive agitation to expose the failures of the TRS Government in implementing the welfare schemes for minorities. (UNI)