Chittoor district tops in State with 100 % CC roads in villages: Minister N Amaranatha Reddy

Chittoor:  Industries Minister N Amaranatha Reddy claims that Chittoor district stands top in the State in achieving 100 per cent CC roads in villages.  He further said that as per the instructions of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu,  it has been decided to  construct 6- lane  road between Chittoor to Mallavaram  with an outlay of  Rs.1,760 cr. covering  61 km distance.

The Minister has attended various  programmes  in V.Kota and Palamaner Mandals on Sunday  along with the senior officials  and  TDP functionaries.  He inaugurated an Anganwadi  Centre Building in P Kuppam  village  where he interacted with the beneficiaries of various  schemes for women.

Amaranatha Reddy inaugurated  1.60 km long Kongatakam – Padigalakuppam  CC  road on Sunday. He explained  the achievements of  TDP Government in several  fronts.  ``In an historical way, stage has been set to provide   HNSS water to the western part of the district by spending over Rs.1,700 cr through Kuppam  branch HNSS canal  facilitating  both drinking and irrigated water.  All the   tanks will be filled up with HNSS water in the first phase covering  Thamballapalli, Madanapalli, Punganur , Palamaner  and  Kuppam mandals,’’ he said. 

The minister further said that  a master plan has envisaged  to provide drinking  water in all the 66 mandals of the district with a whooping  budget of Rs.3,000 cr and drinking water problem in the district  would be resolved permanently. He recalled that CM Naidu  is  very much particular to develop  the district as model one .

Under farmers’ debt relief scheme,  all the eligible farmers in the district were covered and over Rs.1015 cr was spent for this. It has been decided to construct permanent buildings   to all the Anganwadi centres . In the ensuing  Rabi season ,  instructions were given to all the banks to reschedule  crop loans  in the jurisdiction of 63 drought hit mandals in the district, the Minister added. 

Earlier, the minister attended  at  Gramadarsini programme at Kongatakam village. TDP functionaries of Palamaner  constituency   Subhash Chandra Bose, Hemalatha and others were present .