KTR assures to bring women-exclusive manifesto

BRS Working President KT Rama Rao assured to come up with the women-exclusive manifesto would be drafted by women and he also appealed to them to brainstorm on the government services required by them. Speaking at the Future Forward Telangana program in Hyderabad, he said free shuttle services would be operated from Metro stations for the convenience of passengers, especially during nights.

He also announced that the party is working out plans to extend loans to women entrepreneurs in manufacturing and service sectors in urban areas at much lower interest rates.

During the meeting, KTR highlighted that the BRS government had established WE-Hub and four exclusive women’s industrial parks, including Sultanpur, Nandigama, and Koheda. This apart, 10 per cent of plots in industrial parks were earmarked for women in Telangana, he said while interacting with women at a program here on Sunday.

Talking about the safety and security front, he said that the government was drafting a cybercrime legislation that would make Telangana the first State to come up with such a legislation wherein, the offender can be booked for outraging the modesty of an individual on social media, he said.

KTR said that there were 100, 104, and 108 toll-free numbers where people can call for ambulances and fire engines. Likewise, an exclusive toll-free number was being planned for women to lodge any complaints. This would be monitored by the government and the complaints would be routed to different departments, he said.

Even after 75 years of Independence, many State governments were still talking about providing safe drinking water, which was to be addressed long back. In a short span of 9.5 years, Telangana became the first State to provide safe drinking water to 10 million homes, he said, adding that the Union government replicated the same under its Har Ghar Jal program.

Before 2014, there used to be many stories in the media about girl children being sold, young girls in the old city forced to marry old Arab nationals and about how women struggled to get safe drinking water for their children in Nalgonda due to rampant fluorosis, he said.

To address these issues, the BRS government established 200 minority schools. Nearly 1.15 lakh students were pursuing education and of these 50,000 were young women. The State government spends about Rs.1.20 lakh on each student’s education and as a result, the young women were excelling in different competitive exams, including NITs, IITs, and others, he said.

“When a young woman is trained, she becomes a beacon of change and hope,” Rama Rao said. There was a story of Amina from the old city, who was married to an Arab national and now there is another Amina Mahmood in the venue, who wrote a book and presented it to me,” said BRS KTR.