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Breathing life into a dead town
Much akin to the State government’s argument that smaller districts would pave way for development, Sircilla, the tiniest district in Telangana, has been seemingly witnessing an enviable growth.Sircilla, once a thriving textile town, had not been experiencing its best of times for about three decades with the ever-dwindling demand for handlooms, and has become a care of address for suicides and s
Sircilla: Much akin to the State government’s argument that smaller districts would pave way for development, Sircilla, the tiniest district in Telangana, has been seemingly witnessing an enviable growth.Sircilla, once a thriving textile town, had not been experiencing its best of times for about three decades with the ever-dwindling demand for handlooms, and has become a care of address for suicides and starvation deaths.
First off, the government has made a budgetary allocation of Rs 1,200 crore, the highest ever in the State’s history, to the textile sector to ensure livelihood of weavers, depended on both handlooms and power looms round-the-year.
The government, which is promoting handlooms by including the clothes produced in Sircilla in KCR Kit scheme and Bathukamma sarees scheme, besides placing a bulk order for RVM, has initiated many a developmental works in Sircilla.
A couple of days ago, an agricultural polytechnic college at Sardapur got underway, and close on its heels the government sanctioned a nursing college to start a four-year BSc nursing degree course with an intake capacity of 100 from 2018-19 academic year. The government also accorded administrative sanction of Rs 36.45 crore for the college on Saturday.
The district headquarters hospital, which hitherto hogged the headlines many a time for wrong reasons due to lack of essential facilities, is on the verge of acquiring advanced healthcare facilities. On Tuesday (August 22), MA&UD Minister KT Rama Rao is scheduled to inaugurate the advanced medicare facilities including Blood Bank, modern Labour ward, Dialysis Centre and an ICU.
This apart, the Central government has sanctioned a Mother and Child Health Care Centre under National Health Mission and works will be set in motion in about a week. Sources say that most alluring of all the projects that are in the pipeline is the Mahindra Shaktimaan Tractor unit. It’s learnt that talks are in advanced stage between the government and the tractors company. The other projects lined up - Rs 30-crore Apparel Park, Food Processing Centre, Krishi Vignan Kendra, Agriculture College etc. - are certainly enviable to other districts.
Currently, the town is undergoing a huge transformation with the ongoing works of road widening and LED central lighting etc. A 100-bedded hospital in Vemulawada is under construction. The long-awaited high-level bridge across Mulavagu near Kodurupaka is ready for inauguration.
Speaking to The Hans India, Sircilla Collector D Krishna Bhaskar said: “With the lawmakers doing their best, the onus is on district officials to speed up the developmental works. With the district is small in area, the administration has the advantage of focusing on each and every aspect thoroughly.”
Referring to the inauguration of advanced facilities, district hospital superintendent R Thirupathi said that this could be a huge advantage for the people in the region who hitherto had to go to other towns for better healthcare facilities.
By Adepu Mahender
