(*18*) of pensioners increased to 61 lakh in 18 months: Chief Minister
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Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has stated that his authorities’s pension invoice monthly is greater than ₹1,500 crore towards nearly ₹500 crore in the course of the TDP time period.
This mirrored the YSRCP authorities’s dedication to the welfare of the pensioners, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy stated throughout a brief dialogue on the direct switch of advantages underneath numerous schemes in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday.
The Chief Minister identified that the old-age pension paid by the TDP authorities until its fag finish in 2019 was a paltry ₹1,000 monthly, which was increased to ₹2,250 instantly after YSRCP got here to energy.
Till October 2018, the quantity of pensioners was roughly 44.33 lakh. It went up to 61.94 lakh over the past 18 months, he stated.
These statistics uncovered the TDP’s declare to be the saviour of the pensioners, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy said amidst loud thumping of desks by his occasion MLAs.
Earlier, TDP MLA Nimmala Rama Naidu sought to know why the federal government failed in paying ₹3,000 as promised by Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy throughout his 2019 election marketing campaign.
He stated it was the previous Chief Minister, N.T. Rama Rao, who had given an entire new that means to the welfare schemes for the poor by taking sure path-breaking initiatives.
Minister Kodali Sri Venkateswara Rao, and Kolusu Parthasarathy and different YSRCP MLAs stated the Chief Minister would fulfil his dedication quickly in spite of the extreme monetary crunch confronted by the federal government.
Kodali’s snipe at Naidu
Mr. Venkateswara Rao’s remark at this juncture that Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy was not an escapist like his predecessor and TDP nationwide president N. Chandrababu Naidu evoked sturdy condemnation by the TDP MLAs and resulted in yet one more spherical of mutual recrimination.
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