Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Monday promised all help to farmers who lost their crops due to unseasonal rains in the Anantapur district.
In his first tour after returning from China, Mr. Naidu visited Anantapur district and interacted with farmers who had lost papaya and banana crops in N.S. Gate village.
Earlier in the day, after landing at the Puttaparthy airport, he went straight to the Gollapalli reservoir of the Penukonda mandal, which forms a crucial keg in the second phase of the HNSS project. After inspecting the progress and quality of the works at the reservoir, he warned the contractors against not completing the contracts on time.
“Request for a little more if the current price is not profitable. We [government] will consider it. But, if you don’t complete the work on time or do low quality work, you will be blacklisted and action initiated against you,” the Chief Minister warned. He said that he would ensure that 70 TMC of water was brought to the district to give drinking water to every village and provide water for irrigation to every acre. On the last leg of his tour, he visited the Kuntimaddi village tank in the Ramagiri mandal, where he participated in the ‘Neeru – Chettu’ programme by starting off the de-siltation works of the tank.
Underlining the necessity of rejuvenating the tanks and traditional water storage facilities across the State, he said that the government would soon enumerate the exact no of people living in each village and plan accordingly on providing sufficient drinking water to each one of them.
