Hyderabad: Opposition parties attacked the TRS government in the Legislative Assembly on Sunday alleging that it is splurging funds on self-publicity and advertisements.
Opposition parties, including the BJP, TD and the CPM, said the Information and Public Relations Department remains the only one in the state where the expe-nditure had surpassed budgetary allocations in 2017-18, while the other departments implementing welfare schemes couldn’t spend even half of the allocated funds.
They pointed out that the government spent over Rs 700 crore on publicity this year while budgetary allocation was Rs 440 crore. Some bills, they claimed, were still pending.
BJP MLA N.V.S.S. Prabhakar took pot-shots at the government saying that it had sanctioned Rs 5 crore recently for the construction of a building meant for a particular caste but spent Rs 7.50 crore on publicising it by issuing advertisements. “This is a classic example of how the TRS government is splurging money on self-publicity and advertisements for political mileage. Advertisement costs are exceeding the project costs,” he said.
He criticised the government for resorting to objectionable methods to recover taxes from the people in GHMC limits.
