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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Scholarships for all eligible

Special Correspondent

Sets new deadlines for completion of irrigation projects

HYDERABAD: Scholarships will be granted to all eligible applicants from among backward classes and minorities hereafter, Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy said here on Thursday.

Replying to the two-day-long debate on the Governor's address in the Assembly on Thursday, the Chief Minister also said that all claims for ex gratia for accidental deaths under Apathbandu would be cleared without reference to mandalwise quotas under the new concept of "saturation" being implemented now.

Setting fresh deadlines for completion of some irrigation projects, the Chief Minister said work on the Rs 4,000-crore Dummagudem project would begin by Ugadi and concluded by 2011.

Detailed project report would be ready for the Rs 15,000-crore Pranahita-Chevella project by this month-end and tenders called in three months. "We will construct Pulichintala and Polavaram by all means". Telugu Desam, CPI-(M) and BJP members were absent during the Chief Minister's marathon three-hour long reply.

He said he adopted saturation concept for the time in the country to exhaust all eligible applicants in the queue seeking housing, scholarships to students and claims under Apathbandu. "Is this directionless?" he asked, referring to the criticism by the Leader of the Opposition N. Chandrababu Naidu.

Dr. Reddy added that free power would be continued "at any cost".

`Nothing new'

Telugu Desam Legislature Party on Thursday said there was nothing new in the Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy's reply to the debate on motion of thanks to the Governor's address to the Assembly.

"He kept harping on nine-year-rule of Telugu Desam without dwelling on his three years in office.

We wonder if he still thinks he is leader of the Opposition and N. Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister," said TDLP secretary, E. Dayakar Rao while addressing a press conference here.

Mr. Rao and four other party MLAs, D. Narendra Kumar, K. Subbarayudu, D. Uma Maheswara Rao and K. Harishwar Reddy said the Chief Minister conveniently did not respond to the issues raised by the Opposition and used the occasion to indulge in self-praise.

There was no mention of checking price rise, the DSC examination scandal and how many of the jobs it could provide from the two lakh every year the Congress had promised in its manifesto.

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