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KCR for paper on SC/ST funds use


Hyderabad, Oct. 16: Threatening direct action after the Dasara
festival, Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao on
Tuesday demanded that the State government release a white paper on
the budget allocation for Schedule Castes and Tribes. Mr Rao told
mediapersons that more than Rs 10,000 crores from welfare schemes for
SCs and Rs 5,000 crores allocated for tribal welfare had been diverted
by successive governments in the last 15 years.

"There is no going back. We will take the cooperation of all political
parties to fight for the funds and rights of SCs and STs," Mr Rao
said. Mr Rao said that the special component of Plan funds for SCs and
STs were not allotted by both Telugu Desam and Congress governments.
He demanded the setting up a nodal agency to examine funds

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