Govt. committed to providing drinking water to people of Anantapur, says Minister

Finance Minister Payyavula Keshav connected Sunday inaugurated the h2o attraction works astatine Muddalapuram colony of Kuderu mandal successful Uravakonda Assembly constituency. The plant, which has a capableness to dainty 16 cardinal litres per day, was constructed astatine a outgo of ₹15.35 crore utilizing Central authorities funds nether the AMRUT scheme.

Speaking connected the occasion, Mr. Keshav said the State authorities is committed to providing potable drinking h2o to the radical of the territory successful the summer. He appreciated the efforts of Anantapur Urban MLA Daggubati Venkateswara Rao for assisting with the completion of the operation works.

Mr. Keshav said that dissimilar the erstwhile YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) government, which was confined to conscionable the allocations of funds, their authorities translated words into deeds. Mr. Keshav said the NDA authorities had allocated ₹3,800 crore for widening and lining of Handri-Neeva canal successful past year’s fund and had completed the works. He said the authorities is completing irrigation projects and is simultaneously taking steps to flooded the drinking h2o problems. The Finance Minister added that the authorities had allocated ₹700 crore for resolving the drinking h2o occupation successful Municipalities.

Mr. Keshav besides said that they would implicit Amaravati superior works and the Polavaram task isolated from bringing investments to the State.

Anantapur MP Ambica Lakshminarayana said that the completion of the works earlier summertime would resoluteness the drinking h2o occupation of the city. He said Union Urban Development Minister Manohar Lal Khattar is giving precedence to improvement of Anantapur and this has been imaginable due to the fact that of the ‘doube motor sarkar’ successful the State.

Mr. Venkateswara Prasad said that the operation of the works had started successful 2017 with the enactment of past Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. However, its operation did not spell up during the erstwhile regime. “We person completed the operation of the works successful conscionable 20 months and it has been inaugurated aft conducting a proceedings tally for 3 months. The radical of the metropolis volition nary longer person to look the drinking h2o problem,” helium said.