hyderabad telangana chief minister k chandrasekhar rao on saturday instructed officials to immediately resume and complete the first phase of sheep distribution schemethe chief minister said that the second phase of the sheep distribution scheme would start from the financial year 202122the funds for the second phase distribution would be allocated in the budgetalso the first phase of sheep distribution which was put on hold midway due to the government getting busy in containing the spread of coronavirus pandemic will resume and would be completed at the earliestthe cm instructed animal husbandry minister t srinivas yadav and the officials concerned to immediately complete the first phase distribution of the sheepthe scheme was launched in june 2017 to distribute sheep on 75 per cent subsidy to the beneficiaries among the yadava golla and kurma castes from the backward classes community the first phase of the scheme was deferred during the last stages of it due to the coronavirus pandemic about 30000 beneficiaries have already submitted their share of financial contribution and are awaiting the sheep distribution by the governmenttelangana sheep distribution scheme was launched with the twin objective of supporting the traditional shepherd community the kurma and yadavas in the state and simultaneously strengthen the rural economy every person aged above 18 years from shepherd community is eligible for the scheme and is given a unit of animals comprising 20 sheep and a ram it is one of the ways of empowerment of golla and kurma communities in their traditional occupations chief minister k chandrasekhar rao had said it is being implemented by telangana state sheep and goat development cooperative federation tssgdcf the sheep are purchased from other states in order to avoid recycling and increase the net population in the state of rs 125 lakhs cost per unit the government provides 75 per cent of the cost and 25 per cent is borne by the beneficiary the government has started mobile veterinary units to attend to sickness and treatment of animals the tollfree number is 1962