Mon Mar 10 18:43:51 UTC 2025: ## Congress’ Minority Welfare Promises Remain Largely Unfulfilled in Telangana: Report
**Hyderabad, March 11, 2025** – A new report by the Association for Socio-Economic Empowerment of the Marginalised (ASEEM) reveals that the Congress party’s promises to improve the lives of minorities in Telangana, made during the 2023 Assembly election campaign, have largely gone unfulfilled. The NGO’s analysis, covering the first year of the government’s term, exposes significant shortfalls in the implementation of key schemes.
The report highlights critical under-spending across multiple initiatives. For instance, while ₹300 crore was allocated for post-metric scholarships (RTF), only ₹41.86 crore (14%) had been spent by January, despite over 1.21 lakh applications received. Similarly, the Chief Minister’s Overseas Scholarship Scheme, with an allocation of ₹130 crore, saw only 59% of the released funds expended, leaving thousands of applications unsanctioned. A record ₹3,000 crore budget for minority welfare saw a paltry ₹3 crore spent on anything beyond salaries and administrative costs for the Telangana Minorities Residential Educational Institutions Society.
Numerous other promises, including interest-free loans for youth, subsidized loans for unemployed women, the Abdul Kalam Taufa-e-Taleem Scheme, and land allocation for graveyards, remain completely unimplemented. The report concludes that the overall implementation of Congress’s minority welfare agenda has been negligible.
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