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Your Legacy, Ponguleti Slams Harish’s Remarks on State’s Financial Situation

HYDERABAD: Rebutting remarks by BRS leader T. Harish Rao, revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy on Sunday said that the Congress government has fulfilled its promises by providing a number of schemes to people in the last one year.

The government has taken a decision to take 23,000 village revenue assistants and village revenue officers into postings. The BRS government had shifted them to other departments.
Speaking to media persons at the Secretariat, the minister countered Harish Rao's remarks that the state’s financial situation was in a bad shape, by stating that it was due to the ten years of misrule of the BRS government.
"Wasn't it Tughlaq rule of those that made Erravelli the capital and a farmhouse the state secretariat and ruled unilaterally as per their whims and fancies,” he asked, referring to BRS president K. Chandrashekar Rao.
Reddy said that lakhs of applications regarding Dharani issues had been pending during the BRS rule.

“We have taken many decisions related to the revenue department. We have made revenue services accessible to the common man. While taking necessary steps to clean up Dharani portal, we have also resolved applications received by the previous government as regards Dharani. We have mooted a new revenue law and we will be introducing the new revenue law bill in the upcoming Assembly session", the minister said.
He pointed out that they have also decided to transfer the responsibility of managing the Dharani portal from a foreign company called TerraCIS Technologies Ltd to a Central government undertaking, NIC. To resolve problems related to Dharani, we decentralized powers. As a pilot project, the government will extend `five lakh financial assistance to poor people to construct a house under the Indiramma Housing scheme and allocate 4.50 lakh houses initially in the state.

The government would also take up reconstruction of 63000 double bedroom houses, which were neglected by the BRS government, Srinivas Reddy said.


( Source : Deccan Chronicle )
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