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Mahabubnagar projects to be completed in three years

By Our Correspondent

MAHABUBNAGAR, FEB.8. The Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, on his ninth visit to the district on Tuesday since he took over, announced that the proposed irrigation projects in the district would be completed in three years instead of five years as decided earlier.

Dr. Reddy was addressing a public meeting at Madgula, a remote mandal headquarters in the Kalwakurthy Assembly constituency, after laying the foundation for a drinking water scheme that will benefit 49 villages at a cost of Rs. 11.25 crores.

During his earlier visits to the district, Dr. Reddy had announced that the Government would complete all the irrigation by spending Rs. 5,000 crores in five years. But in view of the severe drought and migrations from the district, he promised today that the Kalwakurthy, Bheema, Nettampadu, Koilsagar projects would be completed in three years.

He also announced that the fourth phase of the Kalwakurthy lift irrigation project to benefit Madgula and Amangal mandals, in the Kalwakurthy Assembly constituency, and the Jadcharla and Mahabubnagar constituencies would also be taken up simultaneously, with the three phases of works on the project.

Dr. Reddy said he was moved to see that Palamur labourers, who migrate to other parts of the country to shed their sweat to construct irrigation projects, have no projects in their own district. "Previous Governments should take responsibility for this failure to construct projects in the district". He said that the process of calling tenders for the Kalwakurthy lift irrigation and Bheema Phse II Projects would be completed by the month-end.

The Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, S. Jaipal Reddy, said that the people of Mahabubnagar and Nalgonda districts required only irrigation projects. If the districts were provided will all the proposed irrigation projects the people would produce foodgrains "even in rocks and hillocks."

Focus on villages

He said that the UPA Government and the State Government were concentrating on providing employment in the rural areas and simultaneously striving for development of the agriculture sector. He urged Dr. Reddy to sanction the fourth phase of Kalwakurthy Lift Irrigation Scheme.

The local MLA, Y. Kishta Reddy, the Special Representative in Delhi, Mallu Ravi, and the DCC president, S. Jagadeeshwar Reddy, spoke.

Earlier, the Chief Minister inaugurated a girls' ashram school and hostel building and laid the foundation for ST girls residential school at Kalwakurthy.

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