Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao sent to all legislators a pen drive containing one lakh pages of details on the funds spent under SC Sub-Plan to all legislators with minute details of the money spent right from the village level under every scheme.
Speaking during the Question Hour in the Assembly on Friday, the CM dismissed charges that the government has diverted funds allocated under SC Sub Plan. He urged the legislators to go through the details and bring anomalies, if any, to his notice.
At the same time, he also suggested to the Speaker to earmark two days for a comprehensive discussion on the SC Development Fund where members could express their views in detail and the government would reply with the information sought.
He said ₹ 33,462 crore was spent from the ₹ 88,071 crore allocated under planned expenditure this year. At the same time under SC Sub Plan, the government spent ₹ 5,475.02 crore out of the ₹14,375.13 crore allocated in the budget. Similarly, about ₹3,359.37 crore was spent against ₹8,165.87 crore allocated under ST Sub Plan.
Earlier, Congress MLAs, J. Geeta and Sampath Kumar alleged there was a huge diversion of funds, a charge that Mr. Rao rejected. Ms. Geeta said that there was zero spending in the erstwhile Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda and Warangal districts of the sub plan amount. The CM agreed that the figures were correct but they pertained to only a department.
Mr. Sampath raised the issue of atrocities on Dalits, including Nerella incident, but his mike was cut, leading to protests and intervention by the Chief Minister. There was a minor argument over that. between Mr. Jeevan Reddy and the CM when the former’s mike was cut while speaking.
