Hyderabad: The expenditure on the upcoming Krishna Pushkaralu is more than the expenditure for the Godavari Pushkaralu. The state government is spending crores for the Pushkaralu. The previous year, it spent about '2,000 crore for the Godavari Pushkaralu.
Officials were shocked at the massive expenditure for the Godavari Pushkaralu. Till Friday, the state government did not clear the bills of the Godavari Pushkaralu. Now, for the Krishna Pushkaralu too, the state government is spending crores.
It has already sanctioned Rs 1,080 crore to various departments for this purpose. It released Rs 231 crore to the irrigation department, Rs 133 crore to the municipal corporations, Rs 80 crore to the tourism department, Rs 318 crore to the roads & buildings department, Rs 140 crore to the panchayat raj, Rs 136 crore to the CRDA, Rs 30 crore to the endowments department and Rs 10 crore to the municipalities.
Krishna Pushkaralu will be conducted in three districts — Krishna, Guntur and Kurnool. Of the Rs 1,080 crore, a sum of Rs 526 crore went to Krishna district, Rs 410 crore to Guntur district and Rs144 crore to Kurnool district. The departments are still sending fresh proposals for release of funds.
Officials said the pending proposals were of another Rs 1,000 crore. The main works being taken up are of constructing the ghats, laying of roads in cities and municipalities of the three districts, and works related to public health service, toilets, water supply and approach roads to ghats. The endowments department has taken up the renovation of temples in these three districts.
Earlier, the endowments department submitted proposals to the state government on the preparations for Krishna Pushkaralu. The department has estimated the expenditure for Krishna Pushkaralu at Rs 4,256.68 crore.
Of this, the endowments proposed allocations of Rs 2,178.82 crore for Krishna district, Rs 1,330.30 crore for Guntur district and Rs 747.56 crore for Kurnool district.
The government said each district will be allotted about Rs 100 crore. The state had already released over Rs 1,000 crore and the new proposals were pending with the finance department for works worth about Rs1,000 crore.
The finance department is telling the departments to meet the expenditure for these works from their own funds.
