Metro India News | WANAPARTHY

Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu announced that Palamuru-RangaReddy Lift Irrigation scheme (PRLI) will be completed in the next three years and Palamuru, once known for migrations, will be transformed as a rice bowl.

The Deputy Chief Minister who inaugurated various development programmes in Wanaparthy, Nagar Kurnool district, on Thursday later addressed Congress Party workers’ meeting organized at Wanaparthy District headquarters.

Projects like Koyal Sagar, Bhima, Kalwakurthy, Nettempadu over Krishna River were completed by Congress governments alone and it was Congress government that issued the GO for the Palamuru-Ranga Reddy LI scheme, Bhatti said.

He said that Elimineti Madhava Reddy, Srisailam tunnel, and Dindi projects would be completed on a priority basis. He disclosed that along with Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, Irrigation Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy, Excise Minister Jupally Krishna Rao he had reviewed the progress of projects on Krishna River.

He told the party workers that the people's government was formed thanks to all their efforts and it was implementing all the assurances given to people before elections.

All the Ministers in the Cabinet were working for 18 hours a day for people and welfare schemes were being implemented on a large scale. He called upon the party cadre to reach out to people and talk about the welfare programmes being extended to them.

While Telangana State was achieved after a long struggle to get irrigation resources, funds and jobs for its people, the TRS leaders who were given the State with surplus budget reduced the State in their 10 year rule into a debt ridden State, Bhatti criticized.

The Congress government paid Rs 66,000 crore this year towards repayment of loans and interest borrowed by TRS rulers.

When the State was formed, the government was paying Rs 6,400 crore towards loan repayment and now the government was paying Rs 66,000 crore.

Sharing the government’s expenditure on fulfilling election promises, Bhatti said under Rytu Bharosa, in the first year Indiramma People’s government credited Rs 7,600 crore into the accounts of farmers. Another Rs 22,000 crore was credited within a span of three months towards waiver of farm loans upto Rs 2 lakh.

The KCR government had taken almost 10 years to implement loan waiver of Rs 1 lakh in four instalments to farmers and due to inordinate delay it was barely sufficient to pay the interest while principal loan amount remained as it was. But the Congress government fulfilled its loan waiver promise within three months, he said.