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Krishna water for Pulivendula next year

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Resolve encroachments through negotiations, says YSR

HOLDING OUT HOPES: Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy laying the foundation stone for School of Excellence at Ippatla in Kadapa district on Thursday.

KADAPA: Krishna water will be diverted to Pulivendula by June 2008 and 2.50 lakh acres will be irrigated as a permanent drought mitigation measure in the area, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy said on Thursday.

Water from Gandikota lift irrigation scheme would be pumped into Parnapalle tank and water supplied to every acre of land through pipelines, he said after laying the foundation stone for School of Excellence to be built with an outlay of Rs. 11 crores at Ippatla in Lingala mandal. Tenders had been finalised for the works. Completion of works by June next year would enable farmers to raise at least one crop in the parched area, he said.

The Chief Minister pulled up officials when people of Parnapalle and Ambakampalle villages in Lingala mandal complained that they were not provided work in the villages. Apathy of officials in providing work to labourers would not be tolerated, as the Government was spending crores of rupees in this endeavour, the Chief Minister said.

Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy directed Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy, Kadapa MP, and M.T. Krishna Babu, Collector, to tour villages in Lingala mandal within a week and provide work to all applicants. "If there was no scope for works in Parnapalle, people should be allotted work in the neighbouring Bonala and Karusamudram tanks,'' he suggested.

He later inaugurated a shopping complex of Sri Ranganatha Swamy temple near `Poola Angallu' in Pulivendula town. He inaugurated the Pulivendula municipality office and addressed Municipal Chairperson D. Rukmini Devi and councillors. Encroachments on temple and church lands should be resolved through negotiations with religious elders concerned and averting court litigations, Dr. Reddy said.

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