GUNTUR: The Government has failed to protect interests of people by not ensuring enough allocation of funds or projects in the Union Budget for the State, with the implementation of irrigation projects facing some uncertainty, said Communist Party of India (Marxist) State general secretary B.V. Raghavulu.

At a public meeting here in the Wolf Hall grounds to mark the conclusion of the 1,100 km. `Gunturu Ghantaravam,' he gave a call to the Government to come up with a comprehensive development indicator for each mandal in the State.

Allocation meagre

Despite the State Government's assurances on `Jalayagnam,' the allocation in the Union Budget for Accelerated Irrigation Development Programme was a meagre Rs.7,000 crores for the whole of the country, while Andhra Pradesh proposes to spend Rs.10,000 crores on irrigation projects this year, he observed.

The Centre had not sanctioned even a single power project to the State despite a large quantum of power needed to meet the fast pace of industrialisation. .

The State was ignored even in the special assistance given to universities in the country. Andhra Pradesh with a lesser percentage of urbanisation (27 per cent) and more scope for urbanisation compared to Tamil Nadu's (42 per cent) and Karnataka's (32 per cent) was also out of the race in developing `Theme cities.' .

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