It is exploitative budget: Senior TDP MLA

Tirupati: TDP senior leader and Nagari legislator Gali Muddurkrishnama Naidu strongly criticised the annual budget and described it as exploitative. The budget is not at all useful for Chittoor district, he added. Speaking to media persons here on Tuesday, Gali said that the present Congress government had presented nine budgets in the past nine years amounting to about Rs 9.10 lakhs of crores but there was no upliftment of backward and downtrodden people of the State. The entire budget amount was accumulated from the people in various forms like taxes, cess and other charges, he said. He faulted the non-plan expenditure to the tune of Rs 1.03 lakh crores and described it as visionless. With the directionless administration the per capita debt per head has reached Rs 61,000, he condemned. Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy showed much interest on his native village Kalikiri by allotting majority of the new schemes to this village by ignoring district head quarter Chittoor and developed city Tirupati, Naidu pointed. To make profit from irrigation projects, CM has brought INCAP into forefront and handed over the drinking water project in Chittoor district to his loyal, Venkatrami Reddy, who is most corrupted, and this is to make money from the public money, Naidu alleged. If the CM is really intending to provide drinking water to the entire Chittoor district, he should have make an action plan for laying pipeline from Srikalahasti based on Kandaleru water, but he ignored this and the recent budget was focused on new projects, he alleged. With mere Rs 1000 crores, drinking water can be provided to all areas, but this budget has allocated Rs 7400 crores for new projects, which is nothing but wasting of public money and to get profit from contract companies, he alleged. All the development works were diverted to his native village, because to increase his land market prices, Naidu alleged. He opined that instated of establishing JNTU college in Kalikiri, it should have shifted to Chittoor town, where no medical or engineering college was.