BJP national executive committee member Nagam Janardhan Reddy has alleged that the ongoing Mission Kakatiya programme is aimed only to benefit the TRS rank and file and the contractors.
“The Mission Kakatiya is not a new programme and it was taken up by TDP government as ‘Neeru Meeru’ programme during its regime. The programme of removing silt by using proclains from the tanks was also denying employment to the farm labourers engaged in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS),” he stated.
Flaws in estimates
Talking to newsmen here on Saturday, he alleged that the estimates prepared for the Mission Kakatiya programme were having several flaws as the government had increased the cost haphazardly to swindle the public money.
Stating that there were no perennial flows into the tanks during the rainy season due to low rainfall, he suggested that the government should first expedite the completion of pending irrigation projects in the State and fill the minor irrigation tanks by lifting waters.
Refuting the government claims on the number of minor irrigation tanks, he said that the State is having only 4,745 tanks.
He charged that the government had been stating that the State have 46,000 tanks only to siphon off the funds under the programme.
Recollecting that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had himself stated that the Rajiv Rahadhari has several flaws, Mr. Janardhan Reddy found fault with the government for allocating the work to the same executing agency for the removal of curves at a cost of Rs. 1,400 crore.
Flays government
He also flayed the government for not implementing the House committee recommendations on the corrections to the Rajiv Rahadhari.
Alleging that the government was misleading the people with false promise on golden Telangana, Mr. Janardhan Reddy demanded that the government should fulfil its promise of providing two-bed room houses to the poor, three acres of land to Dalits and KG to PG free education on priority basis.
BJP town president Bandi Sanjay Kumar and others were also present.