KADAPA: CPI (M) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu will participate in `Kadapa Pragathi Bata' padayatra and address a public meeting at Kalakshetram here on March 23.

The CPI (M) had been staging a 550-km padayatra from March 5 demanding comprehensive development of Kadapa district, which would culminate on March 23, its district secretary B. Narayana told a press conference on Tuesday. Party activists would take out a massive rally from Zilla Parishad premises at 2 p.m., followed by a public meeting, in which Mr. Raghavulu and State secretary G. Ramulu would participate, he said.

Though Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy hailed from the district, development was a misnomer, Mr. Narayana alleged. Several villages lacked potable drinking water, proper roads and drains and power supply and many villages were hit by fluoride problem, he stated. New industries were not being set up and closed ones not revived.

Construction of irrigation projects and augmentation of irrigation facilities alone would not bail out farmers from a crisis, the CPI (M) leader asserted. Ryots must be provided remunerative prices, he said.

Education and medicare were beyond the reach of poor and Government hospitals faced paucity of staff and medicines, he said.

Mr. Narayana demanded distribution of Government banjar lands to poorer sections and resumption of lands under encroachment. He sought purchase of private lands for allotment to housing for poor.

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