Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader and MLC K. Kavitha has hit back strongly at the Centre’s remarks made against freebies to the poor and said welfare schemes for poor people are not freebies but writing off huge loans taken by corporates are actual freebies.
She stated that that there were about 250 welfare schemes for the poor being implemented by the TRS government in Telangana. They were launched as a responsibility of the State government towards the poor, she said in a statement issued on Tuesday.
Stating that there was a trend across the country terming welfare schemes as “freebies”, Ms. Kavitha said that the Centre had started exerting pressure on the State governments to stop such schemes.
