Telangana: BRS Responsible for State’s Rs 7L-Cr Debts, Says Komatireddy

Nalgonda: Minister for roads and buildings Komatireddy Venkat Reddy on Thursday alleged that the BRS government, which claimed the state would be turned into Bangaru Telangana, sent the state into Rs 7 lakh crore of indebtedness.

Speaking to the media at his camp office, the minister said the debts have become a heavy financial burden on the state. By clearing the debts, the Congress government is implementing welfare schemes and development programmes. Except for two or three poll promises, the Congress government has fulfilled all six guarantees which it had promised in its manifesto. He listed out the fulfilled poll promises – crop loan waiver, free electricity up to 200 units for domestic connections, free travel facility to women in TGSRTC buses and refilling of LPG cylinder for Rs 500.

Replying to a question on the comments made by BRS MLA K. T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao on the condition of residential schools, he refused to respond. If former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao talked on it, he would respond, he added.

He said two machines for drilling the tunnel of Srishialam Left Bank Canal would soon arrive from the United States. He exuded confidence that the works of SLBC tunnel would be completed in 20 months.

Reminding that people of the district were badly affected by the pollution of Musi river, he said that rejuvenation of Musi would benefit people living along it in the district.

He said that the Bhrahmanna Vellamla project was filled with Krishna water improving the groundwater table in the area. He expressed happiness over the imminent fulfillment of his 18-year-old dream of providing irrigation to farmers through Brahmana Vellamla project.

He said Chief Minister Anumula Revanth Reddy will inaugurate the building of the Government Medical College of Nalgonda on December 7. He will also lay the foundation stone for nursing college buildings which would be taken up with an estimated cost of Rs 40 crore, and an underground drainage system with an estimated cost of Rs 110 crore. In addition to them, the Chief Minister will lay the foundation stone for a ghat road at Brahmamgarigutta and Latheef sahib gutta on the day.

The minister said that he would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari to lay the foundation stone for the Regional Ring Road, taken up with an estimated cost of Rs 30,000 crore.