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Revenue and Housing Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy said the State authorities would walk ₹251 crore connected the improvement of the Medaram Sammakka Saralamma tribal shrine, with implicit 1 crore devotees expected to sojourn the temple during the upcoming biennial jatara.
The expansive event, known arsenic Asia’s largest tribal fair, volition beryllium held from January 28 to 31, 2026, successful Medaram village, SS Tadvai mandal, Mulugu district.
Mr. Reddy, who is the erstwhile combined Warangal territory incharge, on with section MLA and Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister Danasari Anasuya (Seethakka), inspected the ongoing improvement works astatine Medaram and besides held a reappraisal gathering with officials connected Monday.
Speaking to the media later, Mr. Srinivasa Reddy stated that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy had precocious sanctioned ₹101 crore for the temple’s development, successful summation to the ₹150 crore already sanctioned. Tenders person been called for ₹71 crore worthy of projects. The Minister assured that the funds would beryllium utilised efficaciously and the temple would beryllium developed successful phases. He instructed Collector T.S. Divakara and different officials to implicit the works wrong the adjacent 50 days without immoderate issues.
Responding to queries astir controversies implicit the allotment of works, Minister Reddy said, “Everyone knows who I am. I don’t request ₹70 crore worthy of contracts. I don’t judge that quality astir complaints against maine with the enactment precocious bid is existent arsenic we are executing improvement enactment arsenic per the suggestions of Chief Minister Revanth Reddy.”
