The Telangana BJP has decided to take up a massive awareness programme to highlight the welfare scheme for ‘Vishwakarmas’ announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day address to the nation in all districts, mandals and villages on Sept. 17, ‘Vishwakarma Day’.
Rajya Sabha member and national OBC Morcha president K. Laxman presided over a meeting of the State wing at the party office where he hailed the scheme and pointed out that it would help the backward sections involved in traditional occupations with an allocation of over ₹13,000 crore and to benefit 30 lakh families with loans, skill training and free implements.
Earlier, the BJP leader said real freedom fighters would be brought to the fore if the party was elected to power in Telangana. “There are many people hailing from backward sections who fought against the British and the Nizam but their stories have been buried and these have to be told to future generations,” he said.
