How many acres irrigated under Kaleshwaram: Bhatti Vikramarka asks KCR

Hyderabad: Leader of the Congress Legislature Party in Assembly Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Friday wanted to know from Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao about the irrigated land under the Kaleshwaram project which has been launched recently.

Addressing the media, he said the Chief Minister assured irrigation facilities to about 18 lakh acres through the project. He wondered why the government launched the project which has been completed up to 15 per cent only.

He said there was an unexplained big mystery behind the project, and this was the reason for not allowing anyone to see the project. He made it clear that the Congress was not opposed to the projects but to the corruption in them.

He made it clear that the answers of the retired engineers were not acceptable to them and said the higher officials of the government should give answers to their questions. Vikramarka said though Rs 69,000 crore have been borrowed during the combined State regime, assets have been handed over to the people. He said the debt of the State has been taken up to Rs 1.95 lakh during the four years rule of TRS.

He wanted to know the need to build palaces keeping aside the issues of the people. He said the buildings of secretariat and Assembly should be constructed after taking the opinions of the MLAs into consideration. He wanted the government to explain about the loans to be taken and wanted a white paper on the loans taken till now.