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Minister puts officials on notice

By Our Staff Reporter

A resident of Jawaharnagar explains his problem regarding supply of drinking water to the Technical Education Minister, Nayani Narasimha Reddy, and the Secunderabad MP, Anjan Kumar Yadav, during the Praja Patham in Musheerabad constituency on Monday. Photo: Mohd. Yousuf

HYDERABAD, APRIL 11. The Praja Patham programme got off to a sluggish beginning in Jawaharnagar division of the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad here on Monday.

It was not even 10 a.m. and the entourage was already reeling under the sweltering heat. Unmindful of the heat and dust, the Technical Education Minister, Nayani Narasimha Reddy, went about meeting people in right earnest and ended up knocking almost all the doors in Bapunagar and Viveknagar while his followers and officials laboured along.

"This is the first time we are out onto the streets after elections," sighed a small time neta in starched white scurrying to the shade of a tree.

"We just have to show our faces. Nothing more," a sweat-drenched official kept telling his colleague over his mobile.

Officials warned

But, the Minister meant business. Chiding officials for the ills plaguing the area, he warned them: "this was no `tamasha' and I would be back in two days to see if the works were completed."

At Bapunagar, he agreed to replace the defunct borewell with a power bore under the Summer Action Plan if residents arrived at a consensus. At Pardhiwada where residents complained of water not reaching their homes, he instructed officials to install a booster to ensure there was enough gravity to haul it.

Seeing the encroachments along the Ashoknagar nala and the debris being dumped into it, he came down heavily on revenue officials asking them to clear them immediately. Similarly, people living by the Chikkadpally municipal market raised a stink about unhealthy conditions prevailing due to two public toilets there. Lambasting the local health inspector, he wanted the premises be handed over to Sulabh group.

Mr. Reddy faced a piquant situation with an MCH official complaining that the APTransco authorities disconnected power supply to the Chikkadpally ward office. Asked about the dues, the official meekly conceded they dated back to 10 years.

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