PNS|Kadapa
Stating that the State will progress only if all the projects, including Polavaram, are completed, Telugu Desam party chief and former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu promised to undertake works to see to it that every acre gets irrigation water once the party forms the next government.
Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday visited the Gandikota project works as part of his programme ‘Yudha Bheri’. Addressing a huge public meeting in Pulivendula, he alleged that the ruling party leaders, doing great injustice to the State.
Though the Polavaram Project Authority (PPA) has made it amply clear not to change the agencies why the State Government replaced the earlier agencies, Chandrababu asked.
Observing that he has undertaken this programme only to bring awareness among the public on the destructive policies of this Government, the former Chief Minister told the people to realise the facts who has done good to the State and who has destroyed.
Chandrababu said that the people may revolt against the Government after witnessing the poor condition of Gandikota reservoir, which is a great asset to Kadapa district.
The TDP, during its regime, organised the Gandikota festival and a plan was formulated to upgrade it as a tourist centre, he said. “I have made every effort to take the Lord Sri Rama temple at Vontimitta to the scale of Bhadrachalam. Since we thought of the future generations we worked with some foresight,” the TDP supremo recalled.
Noting that 280 TMC feet of the Godavari water can be supplied to Banakacherla by digging a 30 km long tunnel in Nallamala forest, Chandrababu Naidu felt that once irrigation facility is provided to Rayalaseema no region in the country can match with this.
“When I talk about the poor condition of the irrigation projects, the inefficient Minister for Water Resources talks about the BRO film. Can they really be called as Ministers,” Chandrababu asked. With the reverse decisions of the Chief Minister 102 projects were pre-closed in Rayalaseema alone, he said and recalled that during the TDP regime it was ensured that the contractors did not revise the rates.
“At any cost I will bring the Godavari water to Banakacherla and my dream is to make Rayalaseema a fertile region,” Nara Chandrababu Naidu added.
