Puvvada Ajay Kumar warns officials against delay in development works
Khammam: Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar has warned the officials against delays in executing various development works in Khammam city.
Riding a bicycle, the minister along with District Collector RV Karnan and Municipal Commissioner Anurag Jayanthi toured the city inspecting ongoing development works.
Ajay Kumar visited ZP Centre, Church Compound, Bonakal cross road, Kalvoddu, Jubileepura, Gattaiah Centre and other areas and reviewed the progress of side drains, road widening, sanitation, Mission Bhagiratha pipe line works and others.
Officials should speed up the works ensuring quality and delaying the works would not be tolerated. Steps have to be taken to ensure that disruption to vehicular traffic and public transport would not be caused because of the works, the minister said.
Speaking to the media, Ajay Kumar informed that for the past one year he along with officials, riding on bicycles, were taking up field level inspection of infrastructure facilities and development works once every two months.
Khammam city has been witnessing rapid progress during the past five years. Internal road works have been taken up with Rs 30 crore Special Development Funds allotted by the Chief Minister.
With the Rs 150 crore of budgetary allocation made to Khammam Municipal Corporation works like CC drains and roads would be laid in all municipal divisions in the city besides taking up other development works, he said.
Later on the day, Ajay Kumar made a surprise inspection of the works related to a check dam being constructed with an expenditure of Rs 7.45 crore across Munneru stream at Prakash Nagar in the city.
After the completion of the check dam Munneru water could be stored in the summer season to address drinking water needs of the city residents. Construction process has to be expedited to complete works as per schedule. The Telangana government was giving priority to drinking water and irrigation and allotting huge amounts of funds, he noted.
At a programme at the minister’s camp office at VDO’s Colony in Khammam, Ajay Kumar distributed the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF) cheques worth about Rs 35. 51 lakh to as many as 97 persons.
So far, CMRF cheques worth Rs 5.32 crore have been distributed to persons. The Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was lending a helping hand liberally to those who were in need of financial assistance, he noted.
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