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Central aid fails to combat backwardness in Kadapa
When Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is repeatedly raising the bogey of a liberal central assistance for development of backward areas in the state, the efficacy of the special development package to serve the very purpose has come under sharp focus at the Tuesday’s Zilla Parishad general body meeting.
​Kadapa: When Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is repeatedly raising the bogey of a liberal central assistance for development of backward areas in the state, the efficacy of the special development package to serve the very purpose has come under sharp focus at the Tuesday’s Zilla Parishad general body meeting.
The district administration was accused of adopting skewed priorities by the YSRCP MLAs which defeated the very objective of the programme. District Collector KV Satyanarayana dismissed the charges. However, the field level realities seem to run counter to the Collector’s claims. The leaders representing peasant organisations and Rayalaseema movement refused to take the Collector for his word.
The district received Rs 100 crore in two spells under the special development package of the Central government since 2014. Inquiries revealed that the administration reportedly incurred Rs 89 crore out of Rs 100 crore for formation of internal roads.
The YSRCP leaders allege that the amounts were spent mainly in three Assembly constituencies — Jammalamadugu and Badvel of the defectors from their party and Rajampet represented by the TDP MLA — allegedly on political grounds.
Ch Chandrasekhar Reddy, general secretary of the Rayalaseema Karmika and Karshaka Samithi, wondered as to how the government could fight backwardness which is marked by recurring drought conditions just by laying roads.
By: Y Sreenivasa Rao
