The Telangana Joint Action Committee will organise in the first week of next month a meeting on unemployment problem in the State which it termed severe.
The decision of the committee was announced by its chairman M. Kodandaram after a meeting of the steering committee. He said a delegation would also study irrigation projects in Mahabubnagar on July 21 and 22 and sensitise land oustees of Mallannasagar reservoir to legal implications of land acquisition taken up by government for the reservoir.
He asked why the government did not propose to take up construction of reservoir at Mallannasagar in the same way as Tammidihatti and Kantanapalli where submergence of land was restricted. The project at Mallannasagar should be redesigned to reduce submergence.
Mr. Kodandaram said the meeting also decided to release next week a book on power sector issues facing the State for the past two years. The participants discussed the threats to farmers in the name of regularisation of unregistered sale deeds.
He took exception to Irrigation Advisor R. Vidyasagar Rao’s statement in New Delhi on Wednesday that irrigation projects would not make headway if the State governments went by the rule book and said it did not behove a person who was supposed to function within the framework of law. Mr. Rao took the side of the government instead of advising it to construct projects according to expert advice and requirements of people.
