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Model villages in three years, says YSR

Staff Reporter

Indiramma scheme launched; transformation of villages, municipalities promised

WASAR (Medak): Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy has promised transformation of all villages and municipalities in the State into model villages and towns within three years.

He said this at the Grama Sabha in the remote Wasar village of Kangti mandal on the occasion of launching of Indiramma programme. The Chief Minister showered promises on the people of Wasar and all the villages by assuring houses to almost 40 lakh homeless families for a monthly payment of Rs.200. Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy is the first Chief Minister to attend any programme in Kangti mandal.

The district administration, which has made elaborate arrangements for the programme, received a rude shock as the Chief Minster refused to address the villagers from the stage set far away from the people. He wanted people of the Wasar in the forefront. After a few minutes of discussions with officials, the Chief Minister came down and sat on the floor and asked the police to allow the villagers into the buffer zone. Efforts of DCC president and Narayankhed legislator Suresh Kumar Shetkar and district Collector B.Venkatesam to make him sit on the mattress failed. At one stage he asked for a plastic chair and addressed the gathering.

Speaks in Kannada

Sitting on the floor, the Chief Minister asked sarpanch Savli Bai Chander Naik and MPP Dama Neelamma of the village about the Indiramma programme. Getting no answer from them, the Chief Minister, who had exposure to Kannada during his stint at Gulbarga, switched over to Kannada and the border village of Wasar loved it.

They responded in chorus to each question he asked.

The Chief Minister promised 344 houses, current connection for Rs. 125 with monthly bill of only Rs. 30 and work for 223 families under the NREGP.

He also handed over bus passes to pregnant women in the village under the RCH-2 programme.

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