Palamuru will be developed as rice bowl after PRIS completion: Bhatti

The Deputy Chief Minister, who inaugurated various development programmes in Wanaparthy and Nagar Kurnool, addressed Congress party workers’ meeting organised at Wanaparthy district headquarters.

Projects like Koyal Sagar, Bhima, Kalwakurthy, Nettempadu over Krishna River were completed by Congress governments alone and it was the Congress government that issued the government order for the PRLI scheme, Bhatti said. He said that the Alimineti Madhava Reddy project, Srisailam tunnel and Dindi projects would be completed on a priority basis.

He along with Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy and Excise Minister Jupally Krishna Rao reviewed the progress of projects on Krishna River.

He informed the party workers that the people’s government was formed thanks to all their efforts and it was implementing all the assurances given to people before elections. All the Ministers in the Cabinet were working for 18 hours a day for the people and the welfare schemes were being implemented on a large scale.

He called upon the party cadre to reach out to people and talk about the welfare programmes being extended to them. While Telangana was achieved after a long struggle to get irrigation resources, funds and jobs for its people, the TRS, which came to power with surplus budget, slipped the State in their 10-year rule into a debt ridden State, Bhatti criticized.

The Congress government paid Rs.66,000 crore this year towards repayment of loans and interest borrowed by TRS rulers. When the State was formed, the government was paying Rs.6,400 crore towards loan repayment and now the government was paying Rs.66,000 crore. Sharing the government’s expenditure on fulfilling election promises, Bhatti said under Rytu Bharosa, in the first year Indiramma People’s government credited Rs.7,600 crore into the accounts of farmers. Another Rs.22,000 crore was credited within a span of three months towards waiver of farm loans upto Rs. 2 lakh.

The BRS government had taken almost 10 years to implement loan waiver of Rs.1 lakh in four installments to farmers and due to inordinate delay it was barely sufficient to pay the interest while principal loan amount remained as it was.

But the Congress government fulfilled its loan waiver promise within three months, he said. He asked the Congress party workers to go boldly to farmers and tell them if any one did not get loan waiver upto Rs.2 lakh, they should give the information and they would get their loan waived.

BRS working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) and MLA T Harish Rao were uttering lies that loan waiver was not done. Bhatti said while it was suggested that Rytu Bharosa be given for five acres or 10 acres, the Congress government put it for discussion in the legislature and later the Cabinet decided that all cultivable lands be given assistance under Rytu Bharosa.

The Congress government increased the Rytu Bharosa amount from Rs.10,000 to Rs 12,000. From January 26, the day when the Constitution authored by Dr. BR Ambedkar came into existence, the Rytu Bharosa amount of Rs 8,400 crore will be credited into the accounts of farmers.

For the first time, under the Indiramma Atmiya Bharosa scheme, an amount of Rs.12,000 will be credited into the accounts of landless agricultural labour.

In the energy sector too, the previous BRS government which said there would be no power if Congress party was elected to power, could not complete even one power generation project in their tenure. The Congress government was supplying quality power without power cuts.

“Though the TRS leaders launched a false campaign on social media about power cuts, we had confidence that people would not be misled,” he said.

Bhatti disclosed that the State government was paying Rs.12,000 crore every year to power utilities under free power supply to the farm sector. The government was also paying insurance premiums on behalf of farmers under the crop compensation and Rytu Bhima schemes. Power generation in Bhadradri and Yadadri power plants will be commenced so that farmers will not have any problem to cultivate lands under borewells.

Apart from thermal power plants, the State government formulated plans for generation of green power. The surplus power will be supplied to other States by the Telangana government.

Listing out other welfare schemes under implementation, Bhatti told the party workers that the insurance limit under Rajiv Aarogyasri scheme was increased from Rs.5 lakh to Rs.10 lakh. The Cabinet decided that in the first phase, Indiramma houses will be sanctioned to 4.5 lakh people and new ration cards will be issued to all without ration cards.

The TRS leaders forgot the promises made to people and indulged in corruption and various scams during their 10 years rule and pushed the State into a debt trap. Bhatti said that the State government was taking up major programmes like Skills University, Sports University, construction of Regional Ring Road (RRR) and Musi Rejuvenation projects.

“TRS leaders are greedy for power and eager to loot people and they cannot think of people’s welfare or State’s progress,” Bhatti alleged. He said he had visited all government hospitals in the State during Covid as a CLP leader and now arrived at Wanaparthy as Deputy Chief Minister. “Whenever I visit a place, it is only for people’s welfare”, he explained.