Collector ordered for closure of sand reach in Rajampet Mandal

Kadapa: District Collector CH. Harikiran has issued instructions for closure of Seshamambapuram sand reach for 48 hours till upgrading the maintenance register. The collector who conducted surprise checkup in the Seshamambapuram sand reach located in Rajampet mandal on Wednesday flared on technical assistant M.Sivasankar of his failure in maintaining the records in proper manner.

During the verification collector spotted several irregularities in the registers like huge variation between actual price specified by the government for each tractor of sand and collected amounts from the consumers, issuing receipts without verifying original letters, permitting sand more than requirement etc.

Speaking the occasion collector ordered the 3 committee members (local Tahsildar, MPDO, Station House officer) to inspect the sand raches every two days to avoid irregularities.

Later collector visited the house of farmer M.Ramamohan Nagavaram village of Chewel mandal who recently committed suicide, condoled his family members and handed over Rs 7lakhs cheque to the deceased wife M.Nagaratnamma. He said farmers not to committed suicides as government is committed to extend all support to them. He said that under Rythu Barosa programme Rs 12,500 will be paid to the farmers from this Rabi season for agriculture operations.