Quality Education, Health Must be Ensured to Poor: Minister Ponguleti
KHAMMAM: Revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy on Monday said reforms brought in by the state government will make quality education and health services accessible to the poor.
Inaugurating a government junior college building at Kusumanchi, he said the state government had spent `637 crore for development of infrastructure in state-run schools. Uniforms and text books were distributed to students on the first day of the academic year. He reminded that the size of Rajiv Aarogyasri health insurance was increased to Rs 10 lakh.
Laying the foundation stone for 12 CC roads, being built at a cost of Rs 2 crore in Khammam municipality, he said the state government maintained a balance between welfare and development. He instructed the officials to complete works of all CC roads in two months. He reminded that drainage and CC roads, taken up with Rs 1.30 crore, were close to completion.
Srinivas Reddy directed officials to take back lands encroached upon by people and distribute them as house sites among the poor.
He confirmed that ex gratia would be extended to flood-affected families in Khammam. A camp and Mee Seva Centre would be set up in flood-affected areas to issue certificates to those who lost their papers due to floods.
Later, he visited flood-hit areas Jalagamnagar, Rajiv Gruhakalpa Colony, Disabled Colony and Karunagiri on a motor cycle and examined the condition of sanitation in the colony.
Telangana Irrigation Development Corporation chairman Muvva Vijay Babu, Khammam municipal commissioner Abhishek Agasya and additional district collector D. Madhusudan Nail were present.