Telangana Government is actively considering extending sustenance allowance of Rs. 12,000 a year to autorickshaw drivers.
The Congress has given an assurance to this effect in its election manifesto and modalities are being worked out in this regard. The Government, he said, is committed to implementing the six guarantees as well as the assurances it gave to the people within 100 days of coming to power, said Industries and IT Minister D. Sridhar Babu.
Mr. Sridhar Babu, who is holding the Legislative Affairs portfolio, intervened in the discussion on Motion of Thanks to Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan’s address to the joint sitting of the legislature. He took objections to BRS member Palla Rajeshwar Reddy’s remarks that the free bus facility for women in the State had hit the autorickshaw drivers who were facing difficulties in earning their livelihood.
