HYDERABAD: Congress has demanded that chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and municipal minister KT Rama Rao implement their promise made during GHMC elections in 2020 that the government will spend Rs 350 crore towards extending Rs 10,000 financial assistance to the families affected by floods in October, 2020.
“During election campaign in GHMC, CM KCR had announced that the government had already distributed Rs 656 crore to 6.56 lakh families affected by floods then, and that others, who had not received it, would be given after GHMC poll code ends. It is six months since GHMC poll code ended, but the flood assistance of Rs 10,000 has not been given to another five lakh families, who are still waiting for it,” AICC spokesperson Dasoju Sravan stated in a letter to KT Rama Rao on Sunday.
Stating that continuous heavy rains in the city and surrounding areas for the past few days have again resulted in flooding of colonies, already having caused over Rs 200 crore damages for the families living in Malakpet, LB Nagar, Uppal, parts of Old City and other areas of GHMC, Sravan demanded that the government immediately announce a financial assistance towards flood relief to these families also.
“It is evident that GHMC and Telangana government did not learn from their past mistakes. Wonder why issues of our sewerage system, storm water drain system are not upgraded to improve its water discharge capacity. It is shameful that even after eight months of devastating floods, the strategic nala development programme has mostly remained on paper,” Sravan said.
