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The Telangana Government has announced its resoluteness to instrumentality reforms successful kid and elder national attraction with acold reaching consequences.
It has launched Bala Bharosa and Pranaam Day Care Centres connected Monday (January 12, 2026), 2 of its benignant initiatives for children and elder citizens, adjacent arsenic Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has said punitive measures would beryllium taken against authorities employees who are recovered blameworthy of neglecting their parents.
The Chief Minister made the comments aft launching Bala Bharosa and Pranaam Day Care Centres for elderly. The Pranaam centres — constructed astatine a outgo of ₹1 crore each successful 37 locations — were aimed astatine serving arsenic a hub for enactment for elder citizens with their counterparts, equipped with bully prime nutrient and different amenities. The Government besides launched a archetypal of its benignant strategy successful the state aimed astatine empowering persons with disabilities (PwD) with assistive devices.
Mr. Reddy lamented that radical from mediocre and mediate people backgrounds neglected their parents erstwhile they settled down with jobs successful the Government departments. Understanding the plight of specified parents, the Government had decided to instrumentality a humanitarian inaugural to guarantee that they were not near to their fate.
He announced that the Government would amend the applicable laws to guarantee that portion of magnitude from the salaries of employees, astir 15%, was deducted and deposited straight into the accounts of parents if they were recovered neglecting parents. “People who don’t attraction astir their parents person nary work towards society. The Government is present to acceptable them right,” helium said.
Transgenders arsenic co-opted members of ULBs
The Chief Minister announced different large initiative, nominating members from transgenders assemblage arsenic co-opted members to the Urban Local Bodies that were going to polls soon. He felt that transgender persons were being discriminated against and their problems went unheard. “I americium actively considering nominating transgenders arsenic co-opted members successful the municipal bodies truthful that they tin rise their issues successful the nationalist fora and get their issues resolved,” helium said.
The Chief Minister said the contented would beryllium discussed elaborately successful the adjacent gathering of the State Cabinet truthful that an due determination could beryllium taken. The Government had already decided to springiness 2 chamber houses and lodging plots to transgenders arsenic a measurement to instil assurance among them that the Government had adopted a humanitarian attack towards them.
Proactive decisions for PwDs
The Chief Minister said the Government had taken a proactive determination to promote persons with disabilities successful education, employment and sports. Accordingly, preservation for PwDs successful recruitment to Government jobs was being implemented portion the Government had fixed Group-II occupation to a specially-abled miss who won medal successful the Paralympics competitions.
“There is aggravated contention and persons with disabilities should not consciousness near out. The Government had truthful launched respective initiatives to wide their doubts and guarantee that they get their due,” helium said. Mr. Revanth Reddy quoted the illustration of elder person S. Jaipal Reddy who ne'er felt that helium was specially abled and roseate to go the champion parliamentarian.
Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka said that the Government for the archetypal clip had allocated ₹50 crore each successful the archetypal 2 years for the payment of persons with disabilities and elder citizens. The allocation for these sections successful the 10-year Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) regularisation was conscionable ₹60 crore and the Congress Government had fulfilled its committedness arsenic a Government with humanitarian approach. Ministers Damodar Rajanarsimha, A. Lakshman Kumar and Danasari Anasuya alias Seethakka besides spoke.
