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Rs 149.50 cr for dalits' welfare
TNN, Aug 6, 2010, 10.50pm IST
HAVERI: Karnataka State Ambedkar Development Corporation (KSADC)
chairman A R Krishnamurthy said that the government has allotted Rs
145.90 crore for the upliftment of SC/ST families.
After convening a review meeting, he told reporters that corporation
aims at taking up various development and welfare schemes for dalits.
Haveri district will get Rs 45 lakh.
KSADC has plans to sanction Rs 1-lakh loan each SC/ST beneficiary to
drill borewells and for irrigation pumpsets, for which Rs 86,000 is
the subsidy from the government. In Haveri, corporation has provided
690 power connections to beneficiaries of irrigation pumpsets. As many
as 519 connections would be given in the next six months.
Self-help scheme has become popular among the dalits and the
corporation has provided Rs 13.95 lakh to 110 beneficiaries under the
scheme. Forty-nine beneficiaries have taken a direct loan of Rs 2.79
lakh this year while Rs 50,000 is given as loan to each member of nine
Bhangi families in Savanur, he added.
District KSADC officer Kavita Warnagal, ZP member Parameshappa
Megalamani were present.
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