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Sachin’s village in sad state
Development works in Puttamrajuvari Kandriga, the sleepy village adopted by cricketer-turned-MP Sachin Tendulkar under the ‘Swachh Bharat’ campaign, are going at a snail’s pace thanks to the officials’ indifferent attitude. While some works are yet to be taken up due to lack of funds, others are not launched despite the availability of finances.
Nellore: Development works in Puttamrajuvari Kandriga, the sleepy village adopted by cricketer-turned-MP Sachin Tendulkar under the ‘Swachh Bharat’ campaign, are going at a snail’s pace thanks to the officials’ indifferent attitude. While some works are yet to be taken up due to lack of funds, others are not launched despite the availability of finances. The pace of works had picked up when N Srikant was the district collector and G Rekha Rani the joint collector.
- Official apathy hampers progress of Puttamrajuvari Kandriga
- Recent visit of MP’s aides did not help
- Development works going on at snail’s pace
Having realised that the pace of development works is not what it ought to be, Sachin had recently sent his aides to speed up the process, but it did not help. There is reportedly no change in the progress of work. When the Rajya Sabha MP visited the village last year, officials had prepared grandiose plans to change the very face of Kandriga, which cannot even receive cell phone signals.
They had promised of providing wi-fi and other latest technologies with the collector allocating Rs 3 crore and Sachin offering to set apart Rs 2.79 crore from his MPLADS. The facilities to be made available included drinking water to 115 houses with metre connections and 24-hour power connectivity (allocation of Rs 35 lakh) and underground drainage (Rs 45 lakh).
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Compost pits are to be built along with linking of houses with drainage pipeline. So far water supply has been arranged to only 65 houses. Funds are awaited for the Panchayat Raj department works like construction of community hall (cost Rs115.24 lakh), a waiting hall (Rs 3.52 lakh), pathway with concrete tiles (Rs 2.49 lakh) and Anganwadi school (Rs 9 lakh). An amount of Rs 13.5 lakh has been allocated for the school’s kitchen and dining hall.
Building of a compound wall along the main road in the village, a burial ground and the school playground are yet to take off. Only some cement roads have been completed out of the funds allocated by the collector. Work of laying of the main approach road and side canals (for which Rs 50 lakh has been set aside) is yet to be launched, as also internal roads, side canals and cement roads in SC,ST Colony (cost Rs 120 lakh).
‘Pucca’ houses and village electrification are also yet to be completed. Gudur RDO Ravindra who has been appointed the nodal officer for overseeing the works is devoting personal attention to expedite them, according to sources.
