Bathukamma Saree Scheme flops; KCR criticized

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s much awaited Bathukamma Saree Scheme to distribute sarees as Dussehra gift to 1.5 lakh women left many women unhappy and they criticized the leader for the poor quality of sarees.

“We skipped today’s work, which would have fetched us a daily wage of over Rs 400, and stood in queues before the fair price shops for hours hoping to get some nice sarees for the Bathukamma festival. But we were thoroughly disappointed over the quality of the polyester sarees, which does not cost even Rs 50-Rs 60 each. It is not worth even for cleaning floors. KCR should not have taken up the scheme at all, rather than insulting us with the poor quality of sarees,” a woman said.



It was announced that the quality of sarees will be good and each saree worth 200rs are going to distributed for free. But the sarees were reportedly thrown in dustbins, burned down on roads and even got rejected by women at the fair price shop counters.