Budget report – Budget gives massive fillip to Maoist rehabilitation, ₹11907 crore allocated to Home Department

Underscoring the need that only through comprehensive welfare and employment can real social transformation of surrendered Maoists be achieved, and thereby Telangana showing the path to the nation, the State Government has allocated ₹11,907 crore for the Home Department.

The announcement was made by the Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka during the presentation of the budget on Friday (March 20, 2026). “The previous government and the present Central Government treated Maoism merely as a law-and-order problem and tried to suppress it through police and armed forces,” he said.

“But our government analysed the roots of the problem and recognised the socio-economic reality that those who went into the forests would lay down arms and rejoin the mainstream of life if youth were provided proper livelihood, social dignity, and economic security,” he added.

The visionary approach adopted by Telangana Government has become a model for the country. After the formation of Telangana State, from 2014 to 2023, 347 Maoists surrendered.

From December 7, 2023, to March 8, 2026, after the Congress government assumed office, 732 Maoists of various levels surrendered. Telangana has shown that only by eliminating the feudal social and economic inequalities that gave rise to Naxalism can the movement truly be brought to an end, he pointed out.