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Contractors exploiting State: CPI

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SEZs will spell food crisis, throw farm sector in disarray

TIRUPATI: State CPI secretary K. Narayana today made a strident attack on the State Government for being `soft' towards contractors of irrigation projects.

Addressing the State convention of the Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Association, he said that the Government, which was thinking hundred times to release a G.O. hiking the pay of the anganwadi workers and helpers by a mere Rs.400/- per month, had no hesitation in allegedly releasing a whopping Rs.1,200 crores to the contractors towards `advance'.

He held the Central and the State Governments squarely responsible for the outbreak of dreaded epidemics like chikungunya and dengue and said that they were trying to wash off their hands by providing Rs. 10 lakhs each to the districts besides trying to play down the outbreak as only normal during the season.

Mr. Narayana wanted the State Government to release without any further delay a G.O. providing the matching grants of Rs. 1,000 and Rs.500 sanctioned by the Central Government to anganwadi workers and helpers.

He termed as reckless the Government's move to set up 300 SEZs in the country unmindful of the imminent danger that it would touch off a serious food crisis besides putting the farm sector in total disarray.

State secretary of the Association affiliated to the AITUC, V. Vijayalakshmi presided.

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