‘Poor can’t buy smartphones, laptops’Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president and Nalgonda MP N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Saturday demanded that the Central and State governments must provide free laptops to all poor students from Below Poverty Line (BPL) families across the State of Telangana. In view of this, he demanded that the Central and State government should distribute free laptops to all BPL students as poor families cannot afford smartphones or laptops. “They must focus on creating the right facilities and infrastructure for poor students. Mr. Reddy also pointed out that farmers in Telangana have no crop insurance as the lack of coordination between the Central and State governments resulted in farmers not getting insurance facilities. He demanded that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao must take immediate measures to restore crop insurance.

Source: The Hindu September 12, 2020 17:48 UTC