Call to conserve water: CM takes officials to task

By Our Staff Reporter

NIZAMABAD, MAY 2. The Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Tuesday urged the people to conserve water by taking up awareness campaigns to ensure that the ground water levels did not deplete due to indiscriminate exploitation of the available resources.

He said people should take note of the severe drought conditions prevailing in Rajasthan and Gujarat and learn a lesson from it. People should realise that Andhra Pradesh should not become another Gujarat or Rajasthan. The key to success was water conservation coupled with watershed schemes to harness groundwater resources. He devoted a part of his speech the concept of ``Neeru-Meeru'' (water and you). He promised development of the backward Adilabad district and to make it a model in the State.

Mr. Chandrababu Naidu was speaking at a gram sabha in Khanapur mandal headquarters of Adilabad district, about 110 km from here, as part of the 12th phase of the Janmabhoomi programme. The Chief Minister, on his arrival in this tribal-dominated mandal headquarters, went to government high school premises where the gram sabha was arranged. Later, he visited Dastoorabad village in Kadam mandal to participate in the Janmabhoomi programme.

Mr. Chandrababu Naidu look Panchayati Raj and Medical and Health Departments officials to task when people complained against them. The Chief Minister summoned officials at the gram sabha and enquired from the public about their functioning and expressed dissatisfaction about the way some officials performed their duties.

He flew into rage after people complained against the Panchayati Raj, AE, Mr. Chinna Reddy, for not working properly. He was asked to come on to the dais and questioned by the Chief Minister. Failing to elicit proper response, Mr. Naidu instructed the District Collector to submit a report within a week about the AE. The doctor at Pembi primary health centre was also pulled up for not staying in the headquarters. The Chief Minister was also told that the headmaster of the Khanapur school had been on leave for the last six months and no replacement had been arranged.

Mr. Chandrababu Naidu said Adilabad district was rich in mineral resources but the only problem was that the resources were not properly tapped. He recalled the statement made by the TDP founder N.T.Rama Rao, that he would turn Adilabad into a model district in the State. The Chief Minister also recalled that he had toured the district on 22 occasions in the last three years alone.

He announced sops for the constituency, which included the construction of a road bridge across the Godavari near Badankurthi connecting Adilabad and Karimnagar districts, which would reduce the distance between the two district headquarters. He said he would lay the foundation stone for the bridge shortly. The Government was taking steps to take up lining works on Sadarmath canal in the Khanapur constituency.

The Chief Minister stated that the Government had acted swiftly last year in the wake of rising cases of malaria and gastroenteritis in the tribal areas.

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