ZP general body meet discusses water scarcity in villages.
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Uravakonda MLA Visweswara Reddy and several other members raised the issue of drinking water problems in several villages and sought permanent solution to villages by supplying water through tankers.
District Collector Kona Sasidhar intervened in the discussion to assure the members that pipelines would be laid to all problem villages as part of a permanent solution.
He said that there is no funds paucity for attending to drinking water problems.
Rs 15 crore is being spent on providing water to 225 villages through tankers, he added.
Kona Sasidhar said that instructions were already given for deepening of bore-wells where ever it is required for renewal of bores.
The Collector also assured that steps were initiated to bring back migrant labourers and already 1051 NREGS workers returned from other states back to district and work was being provided to them, he said while replying members concerns on migration of agriculture labourers and farmers.
The members at the end of their debate felicitated Chaman for receiving the national Shrama Shakthi Award.
MLAs, MLCs and MP Diwakar Reddy were among those who attended the general body meeting.