CMP for common man

Hyderabad: With the poll date fast approaching, the People’s Front on Monday came out with its common minimum programme which promises something for everyone. It said it will restore the Telangana Atma gauravam by ensuring that the promises made in the AP State Re-Organisation Act were fully implemented. The core areas where it will lay focus will be education and health.

The five-page document lists out elaborately what it would do if voted to power. It would lift all the cases pending against those who participated in the agitation for separates state. It also promises to bring in administrative reforms, setting up of Lokayukta, judicial probe into various contracts that have been awarded during the last four-and-a- years ever since TRS came to power, review of zonal system and host of other assurances.

Releasing the common minimum programme, the convenor of the front M Kodandaram and Telangana TDP president L Ramana said that the front after coming to power will waive off farmers loans to the extent of Rs 2 lakh in single instalment. It will also sanction pension to both husband and wife, old people and widows. The disabled would get a pension of Rs 3,000 as against present Rs 1,500. Prof Kodandaram, chief of Telangana Jana Samithi, a constituent of People’s Front, will oversee the implementation of the CMP, if voted to power.

The Front proposes to construct a Smruti Vanam for the TS martyrs, identity cards to the families of martyrs and will give pensions to them.Among other promises are to create machinery to strictly implement SCs, STs sub-plan, 200 units of power to eligible SCs, STs housing units, a junior residential college for differently-abled people in all district centres, a Finance Corporation for economically-backward classes like SCs, STs, BCs, women and minorities; loans to women at 25 paise interest, hike in wages of beedi workers and unorganised sectors and increase of age for eligibility of benefits under Asara scheme from present 58 to 65.

Apart from providing Rs 3,000 per month allowance for unemployed and free coaching centres in all district headquarters for those who want to prepare for Civils and Group examinations. The CMP said it will strictly implement the welfare act for senior citizens and will provide 50 per cent concession in travel by buses. For the unemployed, the Front promises to fill one lakh vacancies in the first year of coming to power.

The CMP said that it will ban private recruitment agencies and will see that all recruitments for jobs in the Gulf are done only by government agencies. It will also make efforts to see that Saudi consulate was set up in Hyderabad. It will also provide health insurance and accident insurance for the Gulf employees. On the irrigation front, the CMP said it will complete all pending major projects on priority basis, announce a comprehensive water policy, announce MSP at the time of sowing of the crops and setting up a corpus fund Rs 10,000 for market intervention.

It also proposes to give Rs 10,000 per acre to encourage cotton farmers. As regards the panchayat system, the CMP promises to strengthen the system, hold elections in time and amend the rule which enables to suspend the sarpanches for political reasons.

The Front said it will review land acquisition that has taken place in last four years and all pending cases will be resolved within eight months’ time. The power sector will get higher allocation in budget. To attract the parents who have been agitating for a check on high fees in private educational institutions, the CMP said it will constitute a commission to look into the issue and would release fee reimbursement for the poor students in time. It will also ensure that a Mahila and Girijan Universities were set up in the state.

On the health front apart from setting up basti clinics, it will also take up appointment of doctors. For political parties, the front promised to allow citizens to hold peaceful rallies and meetings in Telangana State to voice their concerns on issues to the government unlike the TRS government, which it said stifled people's voice for four long years.

Restoration of Dharna Chowk, stopping police from repeated and regular use of Section 144 (prohibiting assembly of four or more people in an area) and Section 30 (no processions, agitation or dharnas will be allowed.