Ahead of the civic elections in the State capital, Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister K Rosaiah today reiterated in the State Assembly the Congress Government’s commitment to make Hyderabad a ’world-class city’, by completing ongoing infrastructure projects and taking up new ones.
Mr Rosaiah, who presented his 15th Budget in the State Assembly, a record for any Finance Minister in the country, said the State Government was expediting construction of eight-lane Access Controlled Expressway at an estimated cost of Rs 4,607 crore.
The Centre had sanctioned 268 projects costing over Rs 12,523.70 crore under various sub-components of the flagship Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) with special emphasis on water supply, sewerage, transport and integrated development of slums, including housing, infrastructure projects and solid waste management.
The State Government had approved the ’’Maulana Abul Kalam Hyderabad Sujala Sravanthi’’ scheme to draw water from river Godavari in three phases for Greater Hyderabad, he said, announcing Rs 250 crore in this year’s budget for the first phase of the project, costing Rs 3,375 crore.
He allocated Rs 37 crore for improving the quality of water supply in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.Pointing out that 1.83 lakh groups of the poor women in 7,040 slums had been organised into Self Help Groups (SHG) under ’Indira Kranthi Patham Urban’ and provided a credit of Rs 843 crore during 2008-09 as bank linkages.
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