Senior Congress chief Chinta Mohan interacting with folks at Brahmanapalli village in SPSR Nellore district on Saturday.
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Dalits confronted untold miseries in Andhra Pradesh because the YSR Congress Social gathering Authorities ignored their welfare, senior Congress chief Chinta Mohan has alleged.

Visiting Dalit colonies of Chintatmakur, Brahmanapalli, Venkatreddypalle and Tropugunta in Kaluvoi mandal in SPSR Nellore district on Saturday, the previous Union Minister famous that the Constitutional safeguards have been adopted extra in breach than in adherence within the State.

He stated over 17,000 acres assigned to Dalits in the course of the Indira Gandhi regime had been usurped by the current Jagan Mohan Reddy regime beneath one pretext or the opposite. SC/ST college students have been struggling to finish their schooling following denial of scholarship, he alleged.

It was unlucky that Scheduled caste(SC) and Scheduled Tribe(ST) backlog posts in varied authorities departments remained unfilled as additionally reservation in promotion unimplemented within the State, he lamented.

Self-employment additionally remained a distant dream because the State SC Finance Company was starved of funds by the YSRCP Authorities, he stated.

Equally, loans had not been sanctioned for Dalits beneath the “Startup India” initiative within the State, he stated.

Those that have been sanctioned homes by the State Authorities didn’t get the required institutional credit score, and in consequence, they have been now in a debt lure as they accomplished the development of homes by accessing credit score from personal cash lenders at a excessive fee of curiosity, he stated.

He stated the native self governments have been additionally starved of funds by the State Authorities. It was even worse that it allegedly diverted even the funds earmarked by the Union Authorities for Panchayatraj establishments, he added. The State Authorities’s resolution to repair meters to farm pumpsets at an inflated price was resented by farmers, he noticed.