The Karimnagar district administration has decided to distribute five fruit-bearing and flowering plants to every household during the ensuing Haritha Haram programme after the onset of monsoon, said Minister for Finance and Civil Supplies Eatala Rajender.
Speaking after unfurling the national flag and reviewing the police parade at the Parade Grounds as part of the formation day celebrations here on Friday, he said the administration has decided to take up plantation of 1.26 crore saplings under the Haritha Haram programme and accordingly, saplings were being raised at 85 nurseries by Horticulture, Rural Development and Forest Departments.
He said they have decided to distribute 80 lakh teak saplings and five lakh toddy saplings. During the last financial year, they had planted 75.10 lakh saplings in the district.
Listing out the welfare schemes, he said they were taking all measures to supply drinking water to every household by December this year under Mission Bhagiratha. As part of Swachh Bharath, they have constructed a total of 1,75,325 individual sanitary latrines (ISL) and soon, the Karimnagar district would be declared open-defecation free (ODF).
On the health front, he said the 150-bed Mother and Child Care Centre in Karimnagar was all set to inaugurated soon. Pointing out that they had opened a 10-bed ICU at the government headquarters’ hospital, he said they had released ₹2.70 crore for the modernisation and repairs of the PHCs and labour rooms.
The Karimnagar town would be turned into a tourist hub with the development of Manair River Front (MRF) on the lines of Sabarmati river front in Gujarat. Earlier, the Minister paid floral tributes to the Telangana martyrs at the Martyrs’ Memorial and garlanded the statues of Telangana Talli and Telangana ideologue K. Jayashankar.
ZP Chairperson Tula Uma, legislators G. Kamalakar and B. Shoba, MLC Naradasu Laxman Rao, Mayor S. Ravinder Singh, Collector Sarfaraz Ahmad and others were also present.
