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Government gets into election mode

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Dos and don'ts for municipalities decided

TIRUPATI: With the civic bodies' elections round the corner, the State Government is getting into election mode and has begun unveiling programmes ahead of the polls. As part of the exercise, the district in-charge Minister, N. Raghuveera Reddy, and the Government Chief Whip, N. Kirsnkumar Reddy, were on Thursday closeted with the Commissioners and Special Officers of all the seven municipalities in the district in the presence of the Chittoor Collector, S.S. Rawat, and decided on the dos and don'ts for the municipalities in the run up to the elections.

Schemes implementation

Besides putting the municipal machinery on the top gear to implement the Rajiv Griva Kalpa scheme, the two leaders also sought to put it across to the municipal top brass the need to implement on a war-footing various schemes conceived specifically for the municipalities.

On the Grihakalpa scheme, Mr. Raghuveera Reddy, wanted that all the municipalities must begin collecting applications from beneficiaries so that the work would be grounded from next month.

The other schemes are-- covering even urban areas under the 3 per cent interest scheme -- known in the local parlance as `Pavala vaddi' scheme, making municipalities launch the works immediately to spend the Rs.1.5 crores each provided to them as special funds and use general funds if necessary to complete the works. In respect of the newly carved-out municipalities which are not covered by the World Bank programme, the Government would have to spend funds from its own exchequer.

The Minister asked the Commissioners to visit wards daily and the Special Officers twice a week at the crack of dawn and see that the towns looked tidier, to see that the capacity of the Balaji Reservoir was increased and to examine the feasibility of using water from the reservoir to meet the needs of Chittoor town also, situated 65 km away from Tirupati. Mr. Raghuveera Reddy said that the cloud-seeding programme scheduled to last 120 days would get underway on June 15 in the tracks identified for the purpose.

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