Telangana govt to provide free electricity to ‘Muslim dhobis’
The Telangana government has decided to extend the benefit of free electricity scheme to washermen from the Muslim community.
The backward classes welfare department is implementing the scheme of free electricity supply up to 250 units per month for the backward caste Dhobis, for the Dhobi Ghats and laundry shops, an official release said on Tuesday.
Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi had made a representation that there are groups of Muslim Dhobis who are engaged in the same profession and needed similar benefit, it said.
