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ZP members skip proceedings

Staff Reporter

Accuse Chairman of being negligent to their demands

MLC tries in vain to appease members
White paper will be released on progress, says
ZP chief

Kakinada: The Zilla Parishad general body meeting, scheduled to be held on Sunday, was put off to a later date due to lack of quorum as all the ZPTC members abstained from it protesting against the alleged negligence of chairman Ch. Venugopala Krishna in conceding their demands. Their contention was that a seven-point charter of demands submitted to the Chairman on July 17, 2008 evoked no response and even the ZP Chief Executive Officer (CEO) feigned ignorance.

A short while before ZP Chairman, Minister for Social Welfare Minister Subhash Chandra Bose, Collector Gopalakrishna Dwivedi and Joint Collector K. Sasidhar arrived at the meeting hall, the ZPTC members went into a huddle in an adjacent room and refused to take their seats till the ZP Chairman gave an assurance to at least look into their demands. Chief Executive Officer D. Nagesh Babu made a futile attempt to pacify the agitated members who also regretted that the Chairman lacked courtesy to consider their genuine demands. MLC G. Rudra Raju also tried in vain to appease the members.

The Chairman announced that he was adjourning the meeting around 12.30 p.m. when the ZPTC members did not heed his plea to participate in deliberations.

He told reporters later that he would release a white paper on the progress achieved by the Zilla Parishad in the last couple of years and that he could only endorse the ZPTC members’ demands to the Government.

He further described it as an attempt to throw the good work done by him into disrepute. However, he would not hide anything from the members particularly after doubts were cast on his functioning.

List of demands

Speaking to media persons separately, ZPTCs’ Association State president P. Venkatrama Reddy said equal distribution of ZP funds among Members of Parliament, Members of Legislative Assembly and ZPTC members, submission of a detailed statement of the funds received from Central and State Governments in the last two years, appointment of ZPTC members as the chairpersons of ZP high schools’ committees, sanctioning of 500 square yards house plots, construction of separate rooms for ZPTC members in the mandal parishad office buildings, priority for the ZPTC members to speak at the ZP meetings and reading out of the resolutions passed in ZP meetings were the demands.

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