ANANTAPUR: Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu said on Wedneday that the government planned to fill all 1,260 tanks in Anantapur district with water from the Handri Neeva Sujala Sravanthi (HNSS) project.
Speaking at a public meeting marking the progress of the ‘Janmabhoomi – Maa Vooru’ programme at the Bukkapatnam mandal headquarters village in Anantapur district, he appealed to people to cooperate in making his dream of filling up the tanks in the district and ‘changing the course’ of the district from being a drought-prone one to a prosperous one.
“I have just seen the Bukkapatnam tank. It is filled [with] ‘Karra Tumma’ (Telugu name for the weed Prosopis Juliflora ). Palle Raghunatha Reddy told me that it would cost about Rs.3.5 crore to get water to this tank from the HNSS canal passing close by. I will give you as much as required; enable the tank to hold 0.7 or 0.8 tmc of water to serve the Bukkapatnam, Kothacheruvu and Puttaparthy mandals by it,” said Mr. Naidu.
Ring road
He would sanction a ring road connecting the Bukkapatnam and Kothacheruvu mandal headquarters villages with Puttaparthy via the Puttaparthi airport.
“I was criticised by people, inexperienced people, for accepting the special package (in place of special status). It takes but a minute to fight. We would have ended up just fighting and developing. My political acumen in accepting the special package has today meant that the Polavaram project – future lifeline for the State – was given national project status and funds were also released,” said Mr. Naidu, even as he urged the people to re-elect the current government which was working for their welfare.
