Date:06/01/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/01/06/stories/2008010653340300.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Indiramma housing: tardy progress flayed

Staff Reporter

‘Lock officers for not meeting targets’

MLA threatens to lay siege to Housing Manager’s office
JC promises to convene meet with special officers

SANGAREDDY: Deeply concerned over the tardy progress of Indiramma housing, Medak Zilla Parishad chairman M. Balaiah called upon peoples representatives to lock the officers of housing department, if they visited the panchayat without completing the set targets. The issue of non-payment, shortage of cement and absence of assistant engineers and work inspectors in several mandals figured prominently in the Zilla Parishad general body meeting here on Saturday.

Medak legislator P. Sasidhar Reddy went a step ahead and said that he would lay siege to the office of district manager of Housing if he failed to complete the targets set under Indiramma phase one within a fortnight. ZPTC members from Chinna Shankarampet, Papannapet, Kolcharam pointed out the absence of assistant engineers at the Mandal office on designated days meant clearing payment to the beneficiaries. The Joint collector Ramshankar Nayak assured the members that he would convene a meeting with the special officers and sort out problems plaguing the housing programme by end of this month.Dubbaka ZPTC member and Telugu Desam Party floor leader Bakki Venkataiah alleged that politics played a role in the allocation of rural road maintenance funds in the district. Dommata legislator Solipeta Ramalinga Reddy demanded the Chairman to keep the allocations in abeyance till a thorough study was made on the need for maintenance in a particular mandal.