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Making sincere efforts for release of Krishna water: Jayalalithaa

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, APRIL 8. The Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, said today that she had been making efforts with total involvement and sincerity with regard to getting adequate release of Krishna water to the State.

Intervening in the debate on the demands for grants to the Municipal Administration and Rural Development department, Ms. Jayalalithaa referred to the Pattali Makkal Katchi member, T. Velmurugan's request that she hold talks with her Andhra Pradesh counterpart, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, on the issue as she had done previously during the chief ministership of Chandrababu Naidu.

Ms. Jayalalithaa recalled her meetings with five Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh on the issue. She had called on N. Janardhan Reddy, K. Vijayabhaskara Reddy, N.T. Rama Rao and Mr. Naidu and pleaded with them to release sufficient water to the State. She had met Mr. Rajasekhara Reddy, she said, adding that Andhra Pradesh had released 2.7 thousand million cubic feet (tmc ft) to the State, following her plea. "I have been making these efforts with a sense of utmost responsibility and devotion."

New schemes

Announcing new schemes, the Minister for Information, Publicity and Local Administration, K.P. Anbazhagan, said that a five-year Tamil Nadu Urban Development Project-III had been proposed with World Bank assistance from 2005-06 to further strengthen, upgrade and enhance the levels of capacity and capabilities of urban local bodies and reduce urban poverty.

Allocation of Rs. 30 crores under the Integrated Development of Small and Medium Town Scheme, Rs. 54.17 crores under the National Slum Development Scheme, Rs. 38.93 crores under the Mega City programme and Rs. 3.43 crores for cleaning water bodies in urban areas had been made for the current financial year.

The setting up of onsite fluoride removal plants at 968 fluoride-affected rural habitations in Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri and Vellore districts at a cost of Rs. 37 crores was also announced by the Minister. He said that water supply schemes would be provided for 6,500 rural habitations and 40 combined water supply schemes would be implemented during 2005-06.

Rural sanitation

In the rural development sector, schemes such as promoting rural sanitation in 100 villages of tourist and pilgrimage importance, providing training to 5,000 rural youth in the 18-35 age group in ten districts at a cost of Rs. 200 lakhs, providing mobile phones to 100 self-help groups to promote their marketing activities, construction of fish ponds at 218 coastal village panchayats at a cost of Rs. 163.50 lakhs and upgradation of cart tracks to a length of 500 km at a cost of Rs. 6,750 lakhs will be implemented during the current financial year, he said.

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