Telangana’S Welfare Schemes Fail To Take Off In Cantonment Area

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HYDERABAD: Though seven of the eight elected representatives of the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) owe allegiance to the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi, they failed to get various welfare schemes and programmes of the Telangana government implement in the Cantonment. 

The TRS, which evinced great interest in winning the SCB poll by even deputing two city-based ministers to oversee campaigning in the run-up to the civic poll, failed to implement welfare schemes in the Cantonment. 

For instance, the TRS-led government has introduced Haritha Haram, Mission Kakatiya, 2BHK flats for the poor and providing tap connection to every household, but except 'Swachh Hyderabad' none of them failed to takeoff in the Secunderabad Cantonment. 

Chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao had allotted responsibility to two ministers__ Padma Rao (prohibition & excise) and Talasani Srinivas Yadav (commercial taxes) __ to win the SCB poll and except one ward (no-VII) the other seven wards were won by candidates supported by the TRS. TDP MLA G Sayannna, who represents the Secunderabad Cantonment constituency in the Assembly, had not raised any issue related to the Cantonment in the House in the past 15 months. 

Though Hasmathpet cheruvu and Ratnampet cheruvu are located in the Cantonment, neither the MLA nor ward members took any initiative to get it included in the Mission Kakatiya programme. Though the SCB had approached the government to take up the century-old Ramannakunta under the programme, but later backed off as state government funds cannot be spent on defence land (water body is on A1 defence land). 

Even the Telangana government's ambitious project of providing tap connection to every household, housing/2BHK flats for the poor and Haritha Haram were not being implemented in the Cantonment limits. 

"There is no support from the Telangana government. The CM has not even visited the Cantonment despite various schemes were launched across the state. Unfortunately, two ministers, who campaigned during the SCB polls, were ignoring major issues like waiver of nearly Rs 20 crore water dues and garbage dumping yard, which could be resolved at the CM level," SCB vice-president S Keshav Reddy, who got the post with the support of TRS, told TOI.

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