Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s Swachchh Hyderabad (Clean Hyderabad), modeled on the lines of Swachchh Bharat programme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was evoking tremendous response from the cross sections of society.
launched on Sunday last the week-long programme has turned out to be such a big hit with the masses in cleaning the public places and various localities that the Chief Minister declared that the programme will continue for the next four years.
Chief Minister continuing to lead the programme from the front on Tuesday visited Bouddha Nagar, lN Nagar and Parsigutta areas of Secunderabad, personally participated in various cleaning programmes and spoke to the local people urging them to keep their surrounding and localities clean to make Hyderabad city a model in every sense of the word.
At the same time he lashed out at the critics for opposing his ideas of taking over the surplus lands of various universities for building houses for the weaker sections. “I want to build the houses for the poor but these people are burning my effigies. They are the people who don’t want to see a change in the lives of the poor”, he said referring to the Congress party’s opposition to his proposal of taking over 11 acres of land of Osmania University.
KCR said that several universities had excess land which can be used for the other purposes. “I told the Prime Minister that the Aviation University had excess land as 50 acres will be sufficient for it”, he said.
Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Kadiam Srihari also reiterated that the Government will build houses for the weaker sections on the lands of educational institutions which were lying unused. But he denied that the Government was planning to sell this land.
Apart from the Chief Minister, State Governor ESl Narasimhan, several Ministers, Telangana Assembly Speaker and top officials have also participated in the cleaning drive at many places, removing the debris and cleaning the roads.
One of the biggest programmes was held at the historic Charminar in old city under the banner of “Swachchh Charminar” where the local MP Asaduddin Owaisi, many legislators of his party MIM took part in the cleaning of the area. Thousands of people participated in the programme and swept the roads and removed the trash from the vicinity of Charminar.
Hyderabad Police Commissioner Mahinder Reddy and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Special Officer Somesh Kumar and others also took part in the programme.
State Minister T Harish Rao who visited Ramnagar and other areas of Khairatabad constituency along with local BJP MP Chintala Ramchandra Reddy said that Swachchh Hyderabad programme will be extended to entire Telangana.