Telangana govt spending Rs.35,000 crore annually on welfare schemes: KCR

Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao, accused former Union Minister P. Chidambaram, of reading out the Congress script on development of Telangana. “He is probably blind and cannot witness the progress achieved by the new State in a short span of two and half years”, KCR remarked.

Addressing a public meeting at Tirumalaipally in Khammam district on Tuesday, he took potshots at Chidambaram for questioning the performance of TRS government. Chidambaram was not a native of Telangana and hence did not know what development took place here.

Telangana was implementing welfare measures with



an outlay of Rs. 35,000 crore which no other State was doing, the Chief Minister said, and asked the Congress leader whether any Congress-ruled State was giving Rs. 1000 pension for old aged and widows and Rs. 1500 pension for the physically challenged.He also wanted to know whether super fine rice for students of residential schools and colleges was being given anywhere. “Chidambaram should answer this”, KCR said as the crowd cheered.

The Chief Minister criticised the opposition parties for creating hurdles in the construction of Medigadda project. His government was committed to irrigate one crore acres, he said, and added that it had become a habit for the opposition to seek judicial interventions and delay projects.