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Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Thursday announced Rs 26 crore bonanza for Muslims brethren for the pious Ramzan festival to be conducted officially by Telangana government. This includes salary of Rs 1000 for imams and mouzans and distribution of clothes worth Rs 500 to poor Muslim families.
- Imams, mouzans to get salary
- Official Iftar for 4,000 on July 8
- Poor to get clothes worth 500
Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Thursday announced Rs 26 crore bonanza for Muslims brethren for the pious Ramzan festival to be conducted officially by Telangana government. This includes salary of Rs 1000 for imams and mouzans and distribution of clothes worth Rs 500 to poor Muslim families.
Speaking to media at his camp office here on Thursday, the Chief Minister said the salaries would to the imams and mouzans would be paid through Wakf Board. This would benefit about 5,000 of them working in mosques across the State. KCR said to honour the Muslim brethren, Dawat-e-Iftar will be organised in a grand manner.
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The Chief Secretary will monitor the arrangements for the festivities for communal amity and brotherhood like “Ganga-Jamuna Tehzeeb”, he said.The Chief Minister said arrangements will be made to for Dawat-e-Ifthar for over 4,000 people at the Nizam College grounds on July 8. KCR said that he will participate in the festivities and invite all the leaders of all political parties, ministers, MPs, MLAs and district collectors.
Ambassadors of Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia would be extended invitations for this programme, he said.He said Dawat-e-Iftar will be conducted at 100 mosques in Hyderabad and one in every Assembly segment. Senior IPS officer ACB Chief A K Khan will head a committee for the arrangements and Deputy Chief Minister Mahamood Ali will monitor the festivities along with MLC Salim, and a GO will be issued soon for this event, he said.
Rao stated that district collectors were given instructions to hold this programme on a big scale. They should conduct the Ramzan festival officially to ensure that the Muslim brethren participate in a grand manner. While some 3,000 mosques were registered with Wakf Board, nearly 1,500 unregistered mosques will get the benefit of free clothes. Rs 9.75 crore for clothing, Rs 4 crore for food and Rs 3 crore towards other expenses was allocated.
This is a first step to provide succor to the poor Muslims and will extend more help in future, he said. Arrangements are being made to provide food for over 1,000 persons at these mosques after completing Roza and Namaz ritual, he said.
