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As galore arsenic 22,955 drivers from Visakhapatnam territory received fiscal assistance nether the recently launched ‘Auto drivers Sevalo’ scheme, introduced by the State authorities connected Saturday. The district-level programme was held astatine VMRDA Children’s Arena, attended by Social Welfare Minister and in-charge territory Minister Dola Bala Veeranjaneya Swamy, District Collector M.N. Harendhira Prasad, and officials from the Road Transport Authority (RTA). All the MLAs besides participated successful the programme crossed their respective constituencies.
In a unsocial gesture, each elected representatives arrived astatine the lawsuit successful auto-rickshaws, wearing drivers’ uniforms.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president and Gajuwaka MLA Palla Srinivasa Rao participated successful the ‘Auto drivers Sevalo’ programme astatine Ward No. 71. Addressing a ample gathering of auto-rickshaw drivers, who gave him a lukewarm reception, Mr. Srinivasa Rao recalled his gathering with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu successful August, wherever helium highlighted the hardships faced by car drivers and their families. “The result of that entreaty is disposable today. The Chief Minister has sanctioned an yearly fiscal assistance of ₹15,000 for each car operator nether the recently launched scheme. This is not simply a payment measurement but a historical determination reflecting the TDP’s heavy humanism,” helium said.
He added that the authorities has allocated ₹435.35 crore to payment 2,90,234 drivers crossed Andhra Pradesh, including 2.64 lakh car drivers, 20,072 taxi drivers, and 6,400 maxi cab drivers. In Gajuwaka alone, astir 12,000 families are expected to summation fiscal alleviation done the programme.
Drawing a crisp opposition with the erstwhile YSRCP government, helium noted that car drivers had suffered neglect and humiliation nether Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s administration, grappling with rising substance costs, taxation burdens, penalties, and constabulary harassment.
As galore arsenic 13,753 auto-rickshaw drivers from Anakapalli territory received fiscal assistance of ₹20.62 crore nether the ‘Auto drivers Sevalo’ scheme. Assembly Speaker Ch. Ayyanna Patrudu, Excise Minister Kollu Ravindra, Anakapalli MP C.M. Ramesh, and different officials were contiguous during the launch.
Similarly, 4,217 drivers from Alluri Sitharama Raju territory received ₹6.53 crore successful fiscal assistance nether the aforesaid programme, with Minister for Tribal Affairs Gummadi Sandhya Rani attending the event.
