WARANGAL: Work on the much-trumpeted Saint Poet Bammera Pothana Smrithi Vanam project has all but stopped due to lack of fund allotments from the state government.
Four years past the announcement of the project by Chief Minister K. Chandashekar Rao, only half the works are complete. Local people’s representatives are allegedly not taking steps to speed up the works.
Chandrashekar Rao had laid the foundation stone for the project in memory of saint-poet Pothana in Bammera village of Jangaon district in April 2017. The CM had recited poems of the saint and expressed his special love for Telugu literature.
The CM had lamented, how, in the undivided Andhra Pradesh, poets of the Telangana region were neglected and vowed the TRS government would change the trend.
The Kakatiya Heritage Trust (KHT) has been given the responsibility for executing the project spread over 4.3 acres, a plot of land that originally belonged to the poet. Trustee and former NIT professor M….