Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has said his Government is now concentrating on the completion of the Polavaram Right Canal Works (PRCW) which is going at a snail’s pace and asked the contractor to complete in stipulated time. “If the contractor fails to meet the deadline we will put him in blacklist and [the] amount will be recovered,” he warned.
After inspecting the aqueduct works on the PRCW on Saturday during his half-day whirlwind tour on the hottest day so far in the district this summer, Mr. Naidu said though the left canal works were carried out at full speed, the right canal works were not going on on expected lines. He said 13 km of right canal works had to be completed in next one month’s time and asked irrigation officials to monitor the works. “At any cost we are going to complete the project by 2018 and also take up the main dam works.”
The Chief Minister said farm ponds should be dug up on a large scale in the district where the ground water had depleted to unheard of levels. He said he had asked the Collector to allow at least 2.50 lakh ponds in the district. Mr. Naidu also visited Monduru village in Pedavegi mandal where he inaugurated a pylon to mark the laying of 600 km c.c. road and participated in several developmental programmes.
Ministers Devineni Umamaheswara Rao, Peethala Sujata, Undi MLA Sivaramaraju, Denduluru MLA Chintamaneni Prabhakar, District Collector Katamaneni Bhaskar and Eluru MLA Badeti Kotaramarao (Bujji) participated in the programmes at different places.
