3.5.9 Welfare schemes notes

1. 3.5.9.1Super Six and flagship schemes: Thalliki Vandanam, Deepam 2.0, Stree Shakti and how they replaced Navaratnalu

   The "Super Six" were the welfare promises of the TDP–JSP–BJP alliance in 2024. After June 2024 they were rolled out in stages, mostly by renaming and redesigning the YSRCP government's Navaratnalu schemes. The main ones are Thalliki Vandanam, Deepam 2.0, Stree Shakti and Annadata Sukhibhava.

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2. 3.5.9.2Social security pensions in AP: NTR Bharosa

   NTR Bharosa is AP's social security pension scheme. It pays monthly pensions of ₹4,000 to ₹15,000 to about 62 lakh old, widowed, disabled, ill and occupational-group beneficiaries. The pensions are handed over at home by secretariat staff, and SERP runs the scheme.

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3. 3.5.9.3Education, nutrition and health schemes: Dokka Seethamma, Vidyardhi Mitra, Dr NTR Vaidya Seva and Aarogya Raksha

   Children in AP's government schools get a free mid-day meal (Dokka Seethamma) and a free kit (Vidyarthi Mitra). Poor families get cashless hospital care through the Dr NTR Vaidya Seva Trust, and families above the poverty line can buy cover through Aarogya Raksha.

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4. 3.5.9.4Housing, food and urban poor: house sites, housing assistance, Anna Canteens and PDS in AP

   AP aims to give every poor family a permanent house by 2029. It does this through free house sites and central housing schemes topped up by the state. Food security comes from rice cards, fair price shops and ₹5 meals at Anna Canteens.

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5. 3.5.9.5Schemes for weaker sections and women: BC Sub-Plan, SERP and MEPMA SHGs, and MGNREGS in AP

   AP protects weaker sections in four ways: sub-plan laws that ring-fence budget money for SCs, STs and BCs; women's SHGs organised by SERP (rural) and MEPMA (urban), which lead India in bank linkage; rural wage employment, which moved from MGNREGS to the VB-G RAM G Act in July 2026; occupation-group aid for weavers and fishermen

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