Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) working president Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka alleged that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government was pushing the State into a debt trap by resorting to heavy borrowings from various commercial banks at exorbitant interest rates in the name of the Mission Bhageeratha Corporation and the Kaleshwaram Irrigation Project Corporation.
The TRS dispensation should immediately make public the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs), viability reports and other related documents submitted to the commercial banks for obtaining the huge sums of loan to fund various projects, for public scrutiny, he said.
Talking to mediapersons here on Thursday, Mr. Vikramarka lashed out at the TRS regime accusing it of deliberately avoiding discussion on its “unfulfilled promises”, “enormous borrowings” and “unrealistic budget figures” both inside and outside the Assembly in a dictatorial manner fearing exposure of its “misrule.”
Two Congress MLAs were expelled from the State Assembly and the remaining members of the main Opposition party were suspended for the entire budget session in an arbitrary manner undermining the spirit of democracy, alleged Mr. Vikramarka, who is one among the 11 Congress MLAs suspended from the House.
He flayed the TRS government for allegedly making hollow claims about starting new irrigation projects by projecting those projects, which were initiated in the undivided Andhra Pradesh, as new ones after changing their names.
The Sitarama Lift Irrigation Project and Kaleshwaram Project were old projects redesigned by the present regime, which he alleged enhanced the cost estimates of these projects in the name of redesigning to benefit the contractors.
“The TRS miserably failed to deliver on its electoral promises as is evident from construction of just little over 9,500 two-bed room houses as against the requirement of 5.50 lakh units,” he charged.
He alleged that only 12,745 acres of agriculture land was distributed so far as against the actual requirement of 21 lakh acres under the three-acre scheme for landless Dalit families in the State.
