BRS faults Congress Govt. for not keeping promises made to Dalits, minorities
In a statement, party leader and former IPS officer R.S. Praveen Kumar said on Thursday that the previous BRS Government had introduced Dalit Bandhu scheme to enable Dalits take up businesses and small contracts and had also exempted 40% of the EMD (earnest money deposit) required for contracts.
However, the present Congress Government had not extended that relief to SC, ST contractors in the matter of tenders pertaining to the residential educational institutions. It was the AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge who had announced as part of the Chevella Declaration that Dalit Bandhu amount would be increased to ₹12 lakh from ₹10 lakh.
Similarly, it had also announced an 18% quota to SC communities in the government procurement contracts but had not given even one contract to them during that last 20 months.
Separately, former Deputy Chief Minister Md. Mahamood Ali said the Congress party had made several promises to the minorities before the elections but had failed to keep any of them so far. He reminded the government that it had promised a sub-plan for minorities and enhancement of honorarium for 'imams and muezzins' among many others, but had not fulfilled them so far.
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