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YSR promises bounty to tribals

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Each family to get patta for 10 acres after amendments to the Land Acts in force

Announces Rs. 30 crore for widening the Utnoor-Asifabad road
Rs.10 crore for a few minor irrigation and drinking water schemes

Soothing touch: Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy consoling the family members of a child who died due to viral fever at Narnoor mandal headquarters last year.

NARNOOR (ADILABAD DT.): Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Saturday assured the tribals that Government would soon regularise Government and forest land under podu cultivation. Each family would be given pattas for about 10 acres of such land after due amendments to the Land Acts in force.

The Chief Minister was addressing a public meeting here during a visit meant to console the families who had lost members to the ravaging fevers during November-December last year.

He handed over Rs. 25,000 as ex gratia to each of the 178 such families. He said the amount may not bring the dead back to life but it will certainly ease part of the burden faced by individual families.

Mr. Rajasekhara Reddy announced sanction of Rs. 30 crore for widening the Utnoor-Asifabad road. Besides, he also announced Rs.10 crore for a few minor irrigation and drinking water schemes, Rs. 20 crore for Panchayat Raj roads and bridges and Rs. 26 crore for laying the Chintaguda-Markapur tank. He also promised the revival of the closed RTC depot at Utnoor.

The Chief Minister had earlier laid foundation stones for upgradation of the Narnoor PHC to a 30-bedded facility at a cost of Rs. 1.4 crore, a power sub station at a cost of Rs. 1.25 crore, for 7 minor irrigation projects to cost Rs. 13 crore and three bridges to cumulatively cost Rs. 8 crore. He also disbursed Rs. 6 crore as bank linkage to self help groups and bridge loans to the second phase Indiramma housing beneficiaries.

Talking about the efforts of the State Government to provide medicare, Mr. Rajsekhara Reddy said the Government was sponsoring the 108 ambulances to the extent of 95 per cent so that common people could reach hospitals in time. He said a 104 service that had better facilities in it would also be introduced soon. He also talked about the food security programme under which each of the 35,000 tribal families in Narnoor, Jainoor, Sirpur (U), Indervelli and Utnoor mandals received food baskets that cost Rs. 4 crore per month. He said if a family worked for just nine days every month, it would be able to earn food to last the entire month.

R&B Minister and district in charge T. Jeevan Reddy, Labour Minister G. Vinod, Zilla Parishad chairman Rathod Ramesh, MLAs Soyam Bapu Rao (Boath), A. Indrakaran Reddy (Nirmal), C. Ramchander Reddy (Adilabad), Koneru Konappa (Sirpur) and A. Govind Naik (Khanapur), MLC Sultan Ahmed, Collector Ahmad Nadeem, Utnoor ITDA Project Officer Saurabh Gaur and District Congress Committee president P. Ravinder Rao were also present.

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