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Mission Bhagiratha a big scam: Jeevan
Congress MLA T Jeavan Reddy on Saturday alleged that the Mission Bhagiratha scheme has turnedout to be a big scam in the history of the country. He demanded a judicial inquiry into it.
Hyderabad: Congress MLA T Jeavan Reddy on Saturday alleged that the Mission Bhagiratha scheme has turnedout to be a big scam in the history of the country. He demanded a judicial inquiry into it.
Addressing the media here, he said the government has been trying to cover up its corrupt activities by giving a big hype to the scheme. The scheme, which could have been completed with an expenditure of Rs 4,000 crore,has been spending Rs 40,000 crore and this showeda large-scale corruption, he felt.
He said the scheme was meant for providing drinking water to two crore rural population and each person of the village is burdened with Rs 20,000. A family of four persons was burdened with expenditure of of Rs 80,000.
Jeavan Reddy said the sand filters to provide potable water in urban areas would become defunct once the Mission Bhagiratha was launched, he said. The government had resorted to huge borrowing for the scheme and it would impose huge burden on people.
The government should have established “reverse osmosis plant”in each village, which would cost of Rs 10 lakh per unit. This would have cost the government just Rs 4,000 crore.
He said the scheme has been serving the interests of the contractors from Andhra area at a cost of Telangana people. He wondered whether the higher-ups in the government would drink the water to be provided through Mission Bhagiratha. The higher-ups, he said, had been drinking purified water being provided by private companies.
Jeevan Reddy said works on distribution lines of the scheme would devastate the villages. Already roads in the rural areas had been dug up for pipeline works. No restoration of roads had been taken up so far.
He said that the government had failed to spend the amounts allocated under SC and ST Sub-Plans. Out of Rs 26,000 crore allocated under SC Sub-Plan in the past three years only Rs 13,000 crore had been spent. As far as STs were concerned only Rs 8,000 crore had been spent out of Rs 16,000 crore allocated in three years. With these amounts the government could have built about 4 lakh two-bedroom houses to SCs and STs.
