Thiruvananthapuram: Order of state government to ensure reservation in provision of free connection in K phone scheme. Ten percent reservation for Scheduled Castes and three percent for Scheduled Tribes has been proposed.
In the first phase, 14000 BPL households will be connected at the rate of 100 BPL households per constituency. 30,000 educational institutions will benefit from the scheme.
K Phone is the proud scheme of the state government. Earlier, the government had decided to provide connection to 100 BPL families in a constituency. If SC category is not available then 10 percent more will be given to ST category.
And if there is no ST category then that additional three percent will be given to the SC category of the same constituency. If there are no two categories in the constituency, it will be converted to a general category.