The South India Times
(Special Correspondent)
Khammam: As expected, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao did not outline his road map for India. Although he promised to do so at his new national party, the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS), in presence of the invitees to the first meeting at Khammam here, he choose not to. Instead, he rolled out a slew of schemes for the bordering district. Addressing a mammoth meeting, here he promised Rs 10 lakh special fund each to all 589 Gram Panchayats In the district. And, Rs 10 crore special funds each to Pedda Tanda, Kalluru, Edulapuram, Tallada, Nelakondaplly major gram panchayats which have a population of over 10,000. Similarly, he announced Rs 50 crore PM Special Fund to Khammam municipality and Rs 30 crore each to Sattupally, Madhira, and Vyra. A new bridge on the Koneru river will be sanctioned. KCR also announced a new Government Engineering College under JNTU with new courses. When it comes to his party’s national agenda, KCR promised to announce it soon, to the pleasant surprise of the dignitaries, who too might have expected to hear the BRS leaders’ ‘new vision’ for the country.
He also went somewhat philosophical to claim he quite often gets upset with the policies pursued by the party in power at the center. He alleged that the nation lost direction. “Today India is seeking loans and help from USA and others. India is full of assets and abundant in resources. But the country is seeking assistance from others. Here, KCR is way off the mark. Both the IMF and World Bank have pointed to India as the fastest growing major economy in the world. India today ranks in the fifth spot among the largest economies of the world overtaking its coloniser the UK.
So, what is KCR talking about? Geographically, the USA may be big, but it had only 29 per cent of farmland. China, on the other, has only 16 percent, Out of 83 crore acres of land, only 41 crore acres is cultivable India,” he said. He further claimed that only 4000 billion cubic/ 1.40 lakh TMC water is available in the country as of today. He expressed concern over how 50 percent of available water is getting evaporated.
