Funds Crunch: Amma Adarsha Patashala Committees Facing Financial Burden
The patasala committee’s chairperson Navaneetha says she had mortgaged her ‘pusthelathadu’ to mobilise money for construction of the toilets in the school.
Adilabad: The Amma Adarsha Patashala committee has been running from pillar to post for the last two years to get sanction for bills of Rs.8.40 lakh as reimbursement for the toilets constructed in ZPSS in Bajarhathnoor in Adilabad district two years ago.
This, when the state government is conducting a ‘Vidya Varostavalu’ from May 11 to strengthen the government schools on various fronts by giving a bigger role to women.
The patasala committee’s chairperson Navaneetha says she had mortgaged her ‘pusthelathadu’ to mobilise money for construction of the toilets in the school.
Navaneetha, who came along with her school-going son to Prajavanti on Monday, told collector Rajarashi Shah that she was running from pillar to post for the last two years, requesting the authorities to release the bills, but in vain.
The collector promised to expedite release of the bills.
Navaneetha said that, on seeing the plight of the girl students due to a lack of toilets, she constructed eight toilets in three months after local authorities promised her to release the bills immediately, but two years have passed now.
In a similar incident, Thippireddy Vittal Reddy of Sangi village in Jainad mandal has been meeting the authorities for the last four years, requesting them to release the bills for the constructed community hall in Sangi village. He started work on the SC community hall sanctioned to the village under SCD funds in 2018 and completed it in 2022.
He said he spent Rs.7.50 lakh and an additional Rs.2.5lakh for the decoration of the community hall with colours. He regretted that bills were not cleared till now.
There were many instances where sarpanches of gram panchayats spent their own money or took loans at interest and spent on development works in their respective GPs, in the hope that the bills would be released soon. The previous BRS government failed to do so.
In the process, many such sarpanches slipped into debt, and they are running from office to office to get the bills passed and released.