No Step Back On Welfare Programmes: Ponguleti
It has also increased the diet charges by 40 per cent and cosmetic charges by 200 percent for the students of government hostels and residential schools: Reports
NALGONDA: Revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy on Tuesday made it clear that the state government would not withdraw or draw back on implementation of welfare schemes and development programmes in any circumstances.
Laying foundation stone for culverts taken up on Nagarjuna Sagar left canal at Yedulapuram with ₹15.7 lakh in Khammam district, he said the Congress government would not backtrack from fulfilling its all the poll promises and Indiramma houses, free travel facility to women in TGSRTC buses, issue of new ration cards, supplying fine rice to the ration card holders, free electricity for domestic connections up to 200 units and bonus to paddy produced by the farmers.
It has also increased the diet charges by 40 per cent and cosmetic charges by 200 percent for the students of government hostels and residential schools.
He reminded that 4.5 lakh Indiramma houses have been sanctioned to the eligible beneficiaries in the state in the first phase. He assured that Indiramma houses would be sanctioned to all eligible families in the next three years.
Stating that Yedulapuram would be developed as a model municipality in the state by taking up development works, he said all roads in the colonies of the town would be converted into CC roads in the coming days.
He also assured to take up measures to improve the drainage system in the town, he added. Later, the revenue minister distributed sanction letters of double bedroom houses constructed at Plepally to 56 beneficiaries.
