Real test starts for TRS government

Hyderabad: With the Budget session over, the six-month-old TRS government will now face its acid test.

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao, who recently held a meeting with party legislators and leaders, said the next 75 days would witness brisk moves for launching the flagship programmes of the government like restoration of old tanks, drinking water grids and relaying of roads.

KCR has instructed legislators and party leaders to visit villages regularly to oversee the new programmes and to convince the masses to cooperate.

The government, however, is yet to invite tenders for both the restoration of tanks and the water grid connectivity programme, which sources say will start in another week.

The entire process will take at least two months, including a separate tender for cleaning up the Hussainsagar lake in Hyderabad.

All these are gigantic schemes involving huge deployment of men and machinery and the nature of works are said to be huge.

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had recently said that all the earthmovers and bulldozers operating in South India should move to Telangana to take up developmental works. “We have been promising so many things all these days. The time has now come to show our performance. There is no going back on our promises. We will have to show results before the coming Budget session in February, 2015,” said minister T. Harish Rao. Meanwhile, all party leaders and legislators have been told to visit villages and get fresh representations from those denied the enhanced pension and ration cards. The government has faced a lot of criticism for denying both benefits to lakhs of eligible people.