Mission Bhagiratha, “a question of life and death for the State government and stakeholders alike,” has reached fruition, providing drinking water in Thungathurthy constituency here, in Suryapet.
Minister for IT K. T. Rama Rao, hours after inaugurating the water treatment plant at Chilpakuntla village said, the decades-old dreaded disease, fluorosis, will soon be a thing of the past in the district. As part of the Comprehensive Drinking Water Scheme, the ₹143-crore water treatment plant, inaugurated on Wednesday, will ensure safe drinking water for 175 hamlets and about 50 villages here.
Speaking at the Thungathurty Pragathi Sabha at Maddirala. later, the Minister said the prospect of supplying drinking water and irrigation in the district will make the erstwhile disease-stricken lands fertile now. “An ailment left untreated for nearly five decades by the Congress here, it is now an opportunity for our CM and the State to give you a permanent solution through water schemes and tanks restoration,” he said. “Thanks to the Congress,” Mr. Rama Rao said, fluorosis flourished and caused abnormalities in nearly 2 lakh people in the district.
Taking a dig at the Opposition leader the Minister said the Congress’ Praja Chaitnaya Bus Yatra was a result of their insecurity over their relevance in the elections. He called the 40-member team of Congress leaders as “Janababa and the forty thieves”, and went on to advise the people of Thungathurty to “kick them out of power using ballot power”.
The Minister, along with Energy and SC Development leader G. Jagadish Reddy and Constituency leader Gadari Kishore, earlier unveiled the statue of Telangana Talli at Nuthankal.
