Hyderabad: Telangana CM K. Chandrasekhar Rao has announced few measures for the welfare of soldiers and their families which includes the constitution of a Special Fund. He also announced increment of pension from Rs 3,000 to Rs 6,000. This pension is given to the soldiers who participated in the Second World War.

KCR in a statement in Assembly on Tuesday said the Telangana state will be a role model to other states in the country when it came to looking after the welfare of soldiers. He said that the state government will form a special fund for the welfare of soldiers and their families.

For this fund Chief Minister and other ministers will give Rs 25,000 per year. MLAs, MLCs, MPs have decided to give Rs 10,000 per year for the Sainik welfare fund and state government employees will give one day’s salary as fund.