Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Thursday announced a 60-day special action plan to develop villages and towns in the state.
In his Independence Day address after hoisting the national flag at the historic Golconda Fort here, Rao said the first phase of the 60-day programme was aimed at improving sanitation in villages and towns with the participation of people.
"Whether it is in the villages or towns, unhygienic conditions are the root cause for ill health," Rao said. "As part of this 60-day programme, officials and public representatives should change the topography of villages and towns with the participation of people."
"We can buy comfort with money, but when there is no equilibrium in the environment, no amount of money or artificial comforts can comfort us," he said. "We cannot buy rain, air and tranquillity. Green plants, clean environment will only give us comfortable life."
Noting that a new revenue bill would be introduced in the coming budget session of the assembly to replace the old one, Rao said: "The archaic and obsolete revenue acts have inflicted immense damage to the farmers and the people. We have to undo these damages."
This is why the state government has brought in new legislations on panchayati raj and municipalities, he said. "With the new acts, I am sure there will be clean, tidy villages and towns with lots of greenery."
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