Rosaiah vows to make Nalgonda a ‘green hill’

Sunday saw two significant public meetings with massive turnouts take place in the Nalgonda district.
The meeting assumed significance in the wake of the four-month-old Telangana agitation that rocked the region, marked by violence and continuous shutdown of public life.
The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, Union urban affairs minister, Mr S. Jaipal Reddy and minister of state for surface transport, Mr R.P.N. Singh, came together to inaugurate the 4-6 laning works of National Highway-9 at Narkatpally and Dirsimcherla.
While laying the foundation stone for the project, Mr Singh said that the much-delayed Rs 1,700 crore four-lane project would be completed by October 2012 and the government would take up six laning of the highway later. He also said that plans were ready to convert 525 km of state highways into national highways in the third phase of development. Clarifying the reason for the project’s delayed start, Mr Reddy said that though the work was supposed to start in 2007, it got delayed due to litigations. Mr Rosaiah said that late Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy had sanctioned Rs 500 crore to Nalgonda district for eradication of fluoride in the water and almost half of the villages in the district were now getting fluoride-free water from the river Krishna.
Promising to convert Nalgonda (black hill) into “paccha konda” (green hill) within a few years, Mr Rosaiah said that the Congress government has taken up several major development schemes for the district.
Talking about the Telangana issue, Mr Rosaiah said that the matter was now in the hands of Justice Srikrishna panel.