VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy instructed his party MPs to raise a series of issues, including Polavaram project, special category status and release of funds for various projects during the ensuing budget session of the Parliament.
He met the MPs at his camp office here on Monday and explained about several State-related issues and underlined the importance of raising them in Parliament.
Reddy stated that the State was yet to get Rs 1,569.86 crore from the Centre for execution of Polavaram irrigation project and also approval for revised cost estimate of the project to the tune of Rs 55,656.87 crore. He said they had raised the need for accepting the revised cost estimate of Polavaram project at several platforms that has resulted in the Centre taking a positive view on the issue. He said release of funds was essential to execute the project as per schedule.
Maintaining that they had written a series of letters to the Centre on the need to accord…