KADAPA: The Government had granted Rs. 100 crores for the Andhra Pradesh Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (APREGS) in Kadapa district and works costing Rs. 2 crores would be taken up in each of the 50 mandals, Collector M.T. Krishna Babu said on Monday.

Works were yet to be taken up in 139 gram panchayats, he said at a review meeting in Pulivendula. The district administration had spent Rs. 10 crores so far and 67,000 beneficiaries of 46,000 families were engaged in works. The target was to provide work to three lakh families. Crops were being cultivated in only 65,000 hectares and farmers were in dire need of work, he said.

He wanted identification of at least 20 works in every major panchayat and 10 works in minor panchayats. He directed MPDOs and programme officers to monitor the work to check irregularities. He told panchayat secretaries to reside at panchayat headquarters.

People had come forward to raise bio-diesel plantations in 4,355 acres out of the targeted one lakh acres, he said. A sum of Rs. 24 crores was being disbursed towards pension and disbursal should be completed by 10th of every month, he said.

Kadapa MP Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy sought financial assistance to farmers of Pulivendula area who incurred losses due to withering away of sweet lime orchards.

Kadapa ZP Chairperson D. Jyothi Reddy wanted the job scheme implemented properly to prevent workers from migrating to other places.

Zilla Parishad CEO P. Durga Prasad, Deputy CEO Dastigiri Reddy, DWMA Project Director P. Easwar Reddy, Pulivendula OSD Krishnamohan Reddy, District Manager of Housing D. Selvaraj, mandal presidents, ZPTC and MPTC members, sarpanches, mandal officials and programme officers took part.

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