Farmers asked to give up land for projects
Telangana | Written by : Suryaa DeskBHEEMGAL (NIZAMABAD District): Minister for Irrigation and Marketing T. Harish Rao appealed to farmers to cooperate with the Government in the land acquisition for speedy construction of projects and canals.
“If you give land for the Package-20 and 21 of the Pranahitha-Chevella project they would be completed soon. If both the packages are completed water can be given to 68,000 acres in Balkonda Assembly constituency and 20,000 acres in Bheemgal mandal alone,” he said while addressing public meetings at Gonegoppula and Velpur mandals on Monday.
Earlier the Minister accompanied by member of Parliament K. Kavitha and local MLA and Chairman Mission Bhagiratha V. Prashanth Reddy participated in a number of programmes, including inauguration and foundation stone laying functions, in the constituency. He laid the foundation stone for a check dam to be built across Kappalavagu with an estimated cost of ?3.53 crore.
Opposition jealous:
He came down heavily on the Congress party saying that it was coming in the way of execution of developmental and irrigation projects by moving courts and provoking farmers to not give land. The Congress party leaders were doing it because they were jealous, he alleged. The amount allocated by the TRS government for different projects was equal to the allocations made by all the governments in the last 60 years, he claimed.Despite the hurdles being created by the Opposition the Chief Minister aimed to provide water to every acre of land, he said. Farmers were very happy in the current Yasangi [rabi] as they transplanted paddy in vast tracts of arable land and 30 lakh quintals of paddy was expected to be harvested this season, he added.
Support to farmers:Such a good yield was possible because of availability of water in reservoirs, tanks and ground water and also uninterrupted power supply for 24 hours.Earlier, during the previous regimes elected representatives were afraid of visiting villages in the summer as women everywhere used to stage demonstrations with empty pots symbolizing the scarcity of drinking water, he recalled.