Telangana govt’s 5 guarantees: 1.05 Cr applications received under Praja Palana

Hyderabad: Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka on Friday said over 1.05 crore applications have been received for the five guarantees under the Praja Palana programme, while another 19.93 lakh applications were received under other categories.

Cabinet Sub Committee on Praja Palana met under the chairmanship of Bhatti Vikramarka at Dr BR Ambedkar Telangana Secretariat here. Minister for IT, Industries and Commerce D Sridhar Babu was also present.

Deputy Chief Minister instructed the officials to give top priority to complete the data entry process within the stipulated time. He asked the officials to formulate an action plan for taking up physical verification during the next meeting. The officials were also asked to do some exercises in their respective departments for field verification.

Minister Sridhar Babu underscored the need to identify the eligible beneficiary without overlapping so that the genuine person receives the benefit. Referring to reports appearing in certain media and other platforms, he clarified that no bank details were asked from the beneficiaries and no OTP was asked by the officials during the Praja Palana programme.

The IT minister also mentioned that even during the process of data entry no phone number was asked from the beneficiary. He stated that it is a deliberate attempt by certain vested interests to misguide the people and to confuse the people.

The members of the committee discussed the modalities for the implementation of five guarantees and how to integrate the data submitted by the applicants with the data available from various departments. Timelines for completion of data entry along with data analytics and de-duplication exercises were discussed in the meeting. It was also decided that wherever there are gaps in the data, field verification has to be done.

Special Chief Secretary Finance K Ramakrishna Rao, Principal Secretaries Navin Mittal, Sandeep Kumar Sultania, SAM Rizvi, Dana Kishore, Jitender, Civil Supplies Commissioner DS Chowhan, Secretary R&B Srinivas Raju and other senior officials were also present.