‘Release funds for irrigation projects’

CM visiting Nagarjunasagar tomorrow

Communist Party of India (Marxist) senior leader Julakanti Ranga Reddy on Saturday demanded the government to release sufficient funds to complete long-pending projects on river Krishna. “Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who is going to visit Nagarjunasagar constituency on Monday, should come out clearly on funds for pending projects and the timeline for its completion on war-foot basis,” he said, addressing the media at the party office. Mr. Ranga Reddy and the CPI (M) leaders, who have been persistent of the project demands, through protests and periodic letters to Mr. Rao, reiterated that the pending projects if completed would irrigate six lakh acres in the district.