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29% fund allocation sought in Budget for BC welfare
MLC Boddu Nageswara Rao and former vice-chancellor of Acharya Naarajuna University, Prof K Viyanna Rao demanded the State government to allocate 29 per cent of funds in the 2016-17 budget, for the development of backward classes. They alleged that the TDP, which promised the development of backward classes in its election manifesto, ignored them.
Vijayawada: MLC Boddu Nageswara Rao and former vice-chancellor of Acharya Naarajuna University, Prof K Viyanna Rao demanded the State government to allocate 29 per cent of funds in the 2016-17 budget, for the development of backward classes. They alleged that the TDP, which promised the development of backward classes in its election manifesto, ignored them.
Addressing a press conference at the press club, here on Wednesday Nageswara Rao and Viyannarao, president and chairman of the BC Sub-plan and Private Rangamlo Reservation Sadhana Porata Vedika, respectively, said that backward classes comprises 29 per cent of the total population in the State but the government is not sanctioning funds as per ratio of their population.
“Lakhs of BCs are living in miserable conditions in backward classes’ colonies in the State and a large number of backward classes children are living in hostels in pitiful conditions without basic amenities,” they added. They recalled that the TDP in its election manifesto promised allocation of Rs10,000 crore for the BC sub plan, but failed to do so.
They demanded that sub-plan should be given legal status and added that the successive governments allocated 2.79 per cent, 2.80 per cent funds in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 budgets as against population of 29 per cent in the State. They criticised that corporate sector is getting top priority in the governments run by Chandrababu Naidu and Narendra Modi in the State and Centre and lamented that the backward classes and weaker sections are neglected.
