Harish rao slams congress over hike in young india schools budget
BRS leader and former minister T. Harish Rao (Image: DC)
Telangana: BRS leader and former minister T. Harish Rao on Wednesday demanded an explanation from the Congress government over the repeated hikes in the budget for setting up Young India residential schools in Telangana. “The announcements increasing budgets for the schools are nothing but a new drama by the Congress to loot hundreds of crores of rupees in commissions,” Harish Rao alleged.
He noted that on May 27, the government issued an administrative sanction for Rs 4,000 crore for constructing the schools, averaging Rs 200 crore per school. “This is up from the Rs 80 to Rs 100 crore first announced by Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka last July. This means, without a single brick being laid, the estimates have been increased two to three times,” Harish Rao said in a statement.
He pointed out that Bhatti Vikramarka’s estimates were first revised by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, who stated last October that each school would cost around Rs 125 crore, during a foundation stone-laying ceremony in Shadnagar, Rangareddy district. Then, in the second week of this month, the government finalised tenders worth Rs 135 to Rs 150 crore for constructing the schools.
“But now, the cost has again been revised with the announcement that each school will cost Rs 200 crore. Is hiking project costs and taking commissions — something the Congress began with its Jalayagnam back in the day to now with the schools project — a hallmark of the so-called ‘praja palana’ of the Congress?” Harish Rao questioned.
( Source : Deccan Chronicle )
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