Andhra Pradesh - Ongole   

Steps to mitigate water problem, says Minister

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Incharge Minister Satrucharla Vijayarama Raju addressing the District Review Committee meeting held at Ongole on Saturday.

ONGOLE: Minister for Transport, Satrucharla Vijayarama Raju, has assured the District Review Committee that all steps would be taken to mitigate drinking water problem in the district.

Addressing the DRC meeting held here on Saturday, Mr. Vijayarama Raju, who is also district in-charge Minister, said that Nagarjuna Sagar water would be released in 3-4 days to fill up drinking water tanks. The members expressed unhappiness over distribution of seeds, shortage of fodder, delay in implementation of protected water supply schemes and irregularities in counselling of teachers etc.

Minister for Mines, Balineni Srinivasa Reddy, asked the Rural Water Supply officials as why there was delay in completing the scheme at Medaramitla. The officials said that they were facing problems in getting permission from NHAI for laying the pipeline along the national highway. Kandukur MLA, M. Mahidhara Reddy, criticised the agricultural officials for not supplying the seeds to farmers on time. He complained that there were duplicate passbooks with which some farmers got benefited two or three times while other farmers suffered. He also came down heavily on RWS officials for failure to test the pipeline laid over 50 km as part of Kandukur drinking water supply scheme.

Addanki MLA, Gottipati Ravikumar complained that the private dealers and even Growmore refuse to supply seeds to farmers unless they purchased some pesticide from them. District Collector, Kantilal Dande directed the agricultural officials to black list such dealers.

Markapur MLA, Narayana Reddy of TDP expressed concern over fodder shortage and sought permission for farmers to get fodder from Nallamala forest. The elected representatives expressed their ire when the forest officials said that there was no fodder in the forest.

Kanigiri MLA, Ugra Narasimha Reddy said that fluorosis was noticed in Kanigiri areas for the first time in the country.

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