Akbaruddin Owaisi hails hike in Shaadi Mubarak Scheme

Stating that the Telangana state was a fast growing state across the nation, MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi said that he was welcoming the decision of increasing the amount of Kalyana Laxmi and Shadhi Mubharak schemes up to Rs.1 lakh.

Launching the discussion on general budget on Monday, Owaisi asked the state government to initiate steps to protect the Urdu and Arabic languages along with Telugu language. He urged the state government to spend the amount allocated to Brahmana welfare in proper way. He praised the state government saying that it was striving for the welfare of the SC,ST, BC and Minority Welfare. 

He pointed out that the Maharashtra government’s budget was Rs.3 lakh crore but it kept the welfare of minorities aside. He said that he was happy that the TRS government was giving adequate priority for the welfare of minorities in Telangana state. He urged the state government to develop the Unani Hospital located at Charminar. 

He alleged that though the State government was allocating funds to minorities, it was not releasing the funds. He pointed out that the State government did not release a single rupee additional this year when compared to the previous year. “During last year, the releases were Rs 842 crore and this year it is Rs 819.64 crore. 

Even today, Rs 200 crore is pending for release. The



government should at least release Rs 100 crore and I hope the government would not leave me embarrassed,” said Akbaruddin Owaisi. The government allocated Rs 2,000 crore but there was no sufficient staff to utilise the funds as one officer was handling more than two posts, he added.

The MIM leader reiterated the demand to provide a package of Rs 5,000 crore to the Old City for development. He said that 70 per cent of the revenues were from Hyderabad but the allocations to the city had been substantially less. He asked when the projects like Musi beautification, MMTS Phase-II, Metro, TRAM would complete.  He wanted the government to fill 1.5 lakh vacancies in the government. “You have promised filling up of 1 lakh vacancies. People expected ‘ache din’... Naa Modi Sahab Naukriyan de rahe hai aur na aap’ (neither PM Modi is giving jobs nor you). Fill up 1.5 lakh vacancies,” he said. 

The MIM leader wanted the government to call a meeting to take up the issues of NRIs, hawkers in the Old City, checking irregularities in the Waqf Board, implementation of Urdu as second language among others. AKbaruddin sought the government to return the money given by MLAs for land. “The government collected Rs 10 lakh from each MLA in 2008. It has been ten years and neither we got the land nor our money back. Allot land or give back our money,” he said.