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39 crore released for water kiosks
Minister for Agriculture Prattipati Pulla Rao said that government has released Rs 3 crore to each district and Rs 39 crore were released to set up chalivendrams and to distribute water and buttermilk in the summer. Speaking to reporters in Guntur on Tuesday, he instructed the medical and health department officials to be alert in the backdrop of increasing day temperature.
Amaravati: Minister for Agriculture Prattipati Pulla Rao said that government has released Rs 3 crore to each district and Rs 39 crore were released to set up chalivendrams and to distribute water and buttermilk in the summer. Speaking to reporters in Guntur on Tuesday, he instructed the medical and health department officials to be alert in the backdrop of increasing day temperature.
He felt that ranks to Ministers were useful to improve their performance and expressed surprise for getting last rank to Minister for Municipal Administration P Narayana. He said that Narayana works hard. He assured that the government would meet all the requirements of the Medical Council of India to continue 50 MBBS seats in Guntur Medical College and made it clear that there was no question of reduction of medical seats in the GMC.
He said that though Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu was trying to develop the state, the leader of the opposition was creating hurdles and criticising the government. Earlier, Pulla Rao distributed compensation to the farmers whose chilli and pulse stocks were gutted in a fire accident in CR Cold Storage Unit in Yadlapadu in Guntur district on February 24.
Speaking on this occasion, he said that there was a need to settle the insurance claims as early as possible when fire accidents took place in cold storage units. The CR Cold Storage Unit paid 50 percent compensation to the farmers (Rs 2 crore) on Tuesday. Agriculture, revenue officials were also present.
