MAKING A POINT: Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy addressing a Praja Patham meeting at Banaganapalli in Kurnool on Tuesday. — Photo: U. Subramanyam

BANAGANAPALLE (Kurnool Dt.): Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has indicated restricted flow of funds to road works in the next two years in order to mobilise a huge amount of money for the irrigation projects and Indiramma programme.

Addressing a Praja Patham meeting here on Tuesday, he said "Road works have to wait for one or two years if the popular projects of the Government are to be completed successfully." However, he clarified that repairs would be undertaken.

Main task

He said the Government undertook the irrigation projects in a big way with the sole aim of empowering the farmer to be a "giver" and not "seeker" any more.

Also, housing programme under the Indiramma programme was taken up with objective of providing shelter to homeless families as a mission.

During a chat with reporters after the public meeting, Dr. Reddy asked the Collector, Vikas Raj, to refer erosion of the lining of KC canal at some patches to the Vigilance Department terming the damage to the canal works much before they were formally completed as unfair.

On the election strategy of the Congress, he said local understanding would be arrived at in the local body elections.

He refused to comment on the spat with the TDP over the `referendum issue' saying that the TDP leaders themselves were staking a claim for ten per cent seats and said he would not comment on the party, which was struggling to secure deposit.

On the categorisation of SCs, the Chief Minister said the Government's decision was struck down by the highest court of the land once, which needed enough ground work before repeating it. The complexity of the issue would be studied carefully, he said.

The Government was pursuing the matter with the Central Government, he said.

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