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`Congress fails to keep its word'

Special Correspondent

Says that none of the projects planned under Jalayagnam is complete

HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party has charged the Government with failing to keep its promise of completing eight irrigation projects by kharif 2006.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, TDP general secretaries K. Srihari, E. Peddi Reddy and M. Renuka said the Congress has been deceiving people by making empty promises ever since it assumed power in April 2004.

Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy had been boasting that eight of the 24 projects planned under Jalayagnam, would be ready and water supplied to 16 lakh acres by kharif. These are Vamsadhara, Tadipudi, Pushakaram, Somasila, Telugu Ganga, Devadula, Ali Sagar and Gutpha.

But, the latest review showed that none of them has been completed and the acreage scaled down to 7.5 lakh acres. Mr. Srihari said the party would form three committees to study three different issues -- allotment and auction of land around Hyderabad and in Ranga Reddy district, progress of irrigation projects and handloom weavers' suicides. They had been asked to submit their reports in a fortnight.

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