Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a call to all MPs to adopt a village of their choice in their respective constituencies or states. There is overwhelming response to his call from the MPs of north India cutting across the party lines, but there is lukewarm response from southern part, (except Kerala) especially from AP and Telangana states.

 

Modi has introduced Sansad Aadarsh Gram Yojana scheme two months ago, under which all MPs have to adopt a village of their choice and develop them within three years with the MP LAD (Local Area Development) funds kept at their dispose.

 

However, according to the ministry of rural development records, around 30 percent of MPs of AP and 29 percent of MPs of Telangana in both houses have not identified any village to adopt till now. There are 25 MPs from AP but only 19 of them have identified their villages. Out of the 17 MPs from Telangana only 12 have identified the villages.

 

Rest of the MPs has their own reasons and excuses to escape from this noble program. CM Ramesh, KVP Ramachandra rao, who belong to AP, but have been elected to Rajyasabha from Telangana and the MPs K Keshav rao, MA Khan vice versa. So, they ask for excuse as they prefer to adopt a village in their own state. They wrote letters to the house committee to allow them to choose a village from their own state, but as the house committee has not taken any decision till now, they have excuse for their inability to adopt any village. T Subbirami Reddy, who always claims that he alone has developed the Vizag City has not shown any interest to adopt a village till now.

 

MP K Chiranjeevi has adopted his native Mogalturu, M Venkaiah Naidu- Chepaluppada (Vizag), Nirmala Seetharaman-Narsapuram, Sachin Tendulkar- P. Kandriga, Kesineni Srinivas-Gollamandala, Thota Seetharamalakshmi-Akividu and YS Chowdary has adopted Veerullapadu village.