Home Minister P. Sabitha Indra Reddy on Monday strongly advocated the ‘Palle Nidra’ (Night Stay) programme where officials of various departments would stay overnight in villages to review welfare schemes and address people’s grievances.
“Getting to know the villagers and resolving their problems will bring in lot of fulfilment. It will also save, for the rural residents, the trouble of coming all the way to the city,” she said.
Large-scale inundation
Visiting Ranga Reddy district Collectorate for the first time after taking over as Minister, Ms. Reddy, also the in-charge Minister for the district, reviewed the activities of various departments.
Concern
Expressing concern about monsoons leading to large-scale inundation, she directed the irrigation officials to take up long-term repair works for tanks such as Mantrala Cheruvu and Saroornagar Tank.
Upon being informed about the lack of Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in the district, the Minister asked the Animal Husbandry officials to moot the proposal formally so that she could work on it.
She expressed annoyance at the slow progress of Shivasagar Irrigation Project, which remains on paper for the last five years after the foundation was laid for the irrigation project.
Raghuma Reddy, the APTransco Superintendent Engineer, replying to a question by the district Collector M. Dana Kishore, proposed the High Voltage Distribution System as remedy to the problem of hanging power lines in the villages.
Also implanted into the scheme is a plan to regularise the unauthorised connections, he said, citing the programme’s success in Nalgonda.
Power officials were asked to speed up sanctioning of power connections to houses constructed under Indiramma scheme.
Assurance
Home Minister P. Sabita Indra Reddy on Monday assured to get a month’s additional salary sanctioned for police personnel for their dedicated efforts during the recent elections and also to increase their pay and allowances.
She gave the assurance when office-bearers of the AP Police Officers’ Association (APPOA) came to congratulate her. The association decided to felicitate her on June 12. A press release said APPOA thanked Finance Minister K. Rosaiah, who promised to ensure that police personnel get an additional month’s salary for their poll work.
Source : The Hindu.
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