Andhra Pradesh CM Naidu asks Collectors to implement welfare schemes with family as unit

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has directed District Collectors to ensure that welfare schemes are implemented by treating the family as the basic unit, rather than encouraging households to split into smaller ones to avail themselves of more benefits.

Reviewing the implementation of the government’s ‘Super Six’ welfare schemes on the second day of the eighth Collectors’ Conference in Amaravati on Friday, Mr. Naidu said that the family mapping exercise should be completed before new pensions were issued. Existing beneficiaries, however, should continue to receive their benefits during the exercise.

He said families should not be encouraged to split merely for more ration or pension benefits. The government’s policy, he said, was to strengthen larger families by extending greater benefits to them.