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Saturday, Nov 20, 2004

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Andhra Pradesh

A village yet to gain from Manmohan's sops

By D. Sreenivasulu

KURNOOL, NOV. 19. Various works proposed by the Prime Minister have no smooth sailing in Somayajulapalli village of Kurnool district. The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, had visited the village, located on National Highway No. 18 between Kurnool and Nandyal, on July 1 this year to console the families of farmers who had committed suicide. Besides a package for the families, Dr. Singh had announced certain sops for the development of the village. This included Rs. 10 lakhs for additional classrooms so that the local upper primary school could be upgraded to a high school, Rs. 1 crore for an irrigation tank, Rs. 10 lakhs for a drinking water line to Chennamsettipalli (hamlet), Rs. 25 lakhs for cement roads and 100 houses under the IAY scheme. An amount of Rs. 5 lakhs was credited to the account of the school development committee for construction of additional classrooms. But construction could not be taken up due to lack of space on the school campus, which was only half-an-acre. Rangareddy, a village elder who promised one acre land for the school, backed out after officials did not accept his condition that the school be named after him. The authorities have not taken steps to acquire an alternative site for the school. A proposal for an agriculture tank — for irrigating 200 acres — has also run into rough weather, with some sections of farmers opposing it.

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