Telangana govt to allocate Rs 10 cr for journalists' welfare

Telangana Government today said it would allocate Rs 10 crore every year for the journalists' welfare.
An official press release quoted Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao as saying that the Government will also extend help when a journalist falls ill, besides supporting families of deceased scribes.
The Chief Minister held a review meeting on the journalists' welfare with Minister K T Rama Rao, Chief Adviser Rajiv Sharma, Adviser K V Ramanachary, Principal Secretary S Narsing Rao, Press Academy Chairman Allam Narayana and Ranga Reddy District Collector Raghunandan Rao and senior journalists.
"We are taking measures for the welfare of the journalists for the first time in the country. In the last two state budgets we have allocated Rs 10 crore each, which is about Rs 20 crore. We will also allocate Rs 10 crore in the present Budget. With this money we will take up welfare programme for journalists through the Press Academy.

"We will give Rs one lakh each to those journalists who have died and their family members will get a pension of Rs 3,000 per month for five years," he said.
"If journalists have children studying below 10th standard we will give Rs 1,000 to two children of the family per month and if the journalists' children are studying abroad, overseas scholarship will be given to them," the release quoted the CM as saying.