KCR rains sops for Dubbaka makeover 

GESTURE OF A KIND
Chief Minister rolls out a slew of sops for all-round development of Dubbaka where he spent part of his childhood
Dubbaka: Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has announced a series of sops for the development of Dubbaka, where he spent five years of his childhood days studying in the Zilla Parishad High School. After unveiling the foundation stone for the construction of a new building for the high school and junior college, he held a review meeting with all people’s representatives of Dubbaka constituency.

Apart from sanctioning Rs 10 crore for the construction of the beautifully designed building, he also allotted Rs 25 lakh per each of the 138 Gram Panchayats and Rs 50 lakh per each of the 5 Mandal Headquarters in the constituency for development of infrastructure and provision of basic facilities.

He also sanctioned a 100-bed government hospital, 15 new RTC buses, municipal office, fire station, electricity AD office, SC residential school, Deepam connections to 10,000 women, function halls for minorities, a town hall with Rs 5 crore, a veg /non-veg market yard, and 2,500 double-bedroom houses for Dubbaka.

He also sanctioned Rs 25 crore for the development of Dubbaka municipality. In addition to these, he also gave instructions to the District Collector to acquire land for developing a 60-acre park in the municipality and to acquire half-acre of land in every village to construct crematoriums in every village of the constituency.

He also promised that every household in Dubbaka would get drinking water by April 30, as part of the first phase of Mission Bhagiratha. Dubbaka is one among the ten constituencies selected for the roll-out. Assuring that all works of Mission Kakatiya would be completed within four years, he promised that within two- and-a- half years Godavari water would irrigate the fields of Dubbaka, Siddipet and Gajwel constituencies, making the areas drought-free and capable of growing two crops a year with that water.

Assuring complete sanction of funds for the construction of 9 sub-stations in the constituency, he announced that after April, farmers would get 9-hour power supply during the day and that by 2019, farmers would get 24-hour uninterrupted 3-phase power supply. He also disclosed that the non-planned budget for Telangana this year would be Rs 62,000 crore, something which was never given to the region in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh.

Encouraging the people’s representatives to make good utilisation of the development fund, he said that whichever village makes the optimum utilisation would get another Rs 25 lakh. Asking the people and their representatives to have good coordination and take part actively in all the developmental efforts, he said “Positions keep coming and going, but what we do and achieve during having that position, is what determines our place in history”.

Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao, Medak MP Kotha Prabhakar Reddy, Deputy Speaker Padma Devender Reddy, MLAs Ramalinga Reddy, Madan Reddy and Babu Mohan, MLC Sudhakar Reddy, Additional Secretary to CM Smitha Sabarwal, District Collector Ronald Rose, ZP Chairperson Rajamani and others attended the programme.