Local MLA Thudi Megha Reddy has submitted proposals to CM Revanth Reddy, seeking Rs 1,659 crore for developing his Wanaparthy constituency. He requested Rs.565.8 crore for irrigation, Rs 618.98 crore for education, Rs 325.6 crore for health, and Rs 148 crore for R&B works.
Under the irrigation category, Reddy asked for funds to build link canals from Yedula Reservoir to Budharam right, left, and link canals to the Jagirdar canals; widen D5, D8 canals of the Mahatma Gandhi Kalwakurthy Lift Scheme package; construct Khillaganapuram mandal Erragattu reservoir; work on Gatlakhanapur Devuni Cheruvu reservoir in Peddamandadi mandal; and develop Budharam Reservoir along with canals, check dams, tanks, canals, and mini-lifts.
In the education sector, proposals were made for constructing school/high school buildings, commercial establishments; providing basic facilities in schools; setting up an integrated educational hub on the outskirts of Budharam in Gopalpet mandal; constructing residential school buildings, a junior/degree college, a Kasturba Gandhi school at the mandal centre; reviving KDR Polytechnic, building hostels, additional rooms in schools, laying underground drainage, establishing a teacher training center, godown for books, science museum, BC, ST, SC study circles, and setting up ITIs at Gopalpet and Killaghanapuram mandals.
For health sector development, proposals included funds for upgrading government hospitals, building a 30-bed hospital at Pebbair mandal center, setting up ‘palle dawakanas’ in villages, constructing an AYUSH hospital, establishing an MRI scanning center, putting up PHCs, community health centers, oxygen units, and R&B buildings.
