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Chittoor District Collector Sumit Kumar connected Thursday said the medication had stepped up feeder transmission cleaning works for astir 3,100 tanks crossed the territory to amended h2o retention up of the monsoon season.
Speaking astatine the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) gathering held astatine the Collectorate here, the Collector said astir 1,200 tanks had filled beneath 70% capableness past twelvemonth contempt bully rainfall, forcing the territory medication to absorption connected desilting and restoration of feeder channels to amended retention levels this year.
The Collector said permissions had already been granted for material-based cleaning works and that payments for labour and materials were being processed. He added that BT roads, CC roads, and vessel improvement works would besides prime up gait successful the coming weeks arsenic departments moved to wide pending works earlier the rainy season.
Chittoor MP Daggumalla Prasada Rao directed officials to guarantee that payment schemes reached eligible beneficiaries without hold and asked departments to support transparency successful money utilisation and implementation. He besides called for austerity measures successful presumption of the existent economical concern and stressed the request for consciousness programmes to assistance farmers and agrarian communities marque amended usage of payment schemes.
Officials astatine the gathering informed the committee that bills worthy astir ₹18 crore linked to improvement works were inactive pending.
Under the Prime Minister Adarsh Gram Yojana, 66 SC villages were selected successful the archetypal phase, with 437 works sanctioned crossed the district. Authorities said 342 works had already been completed astatine a outgo of astir ₹5 crore, portion 95 different works were astatine antithetic stages of execution.
