Sand policy should be transparent

Hyderabad, Feb 27: YSR Congress has demanded that guidelines should be framed for the sand policy to make it more transparent and benefit the poor and not the Party cadre.

‘TDP announcing that sand would be given free of cost to poor should be implemented in the true spirit and guidelines should be framed to clear the bottlenecks. It should not be turned into another money earning source for TDP cadre,’ party senior leader Botsa Satyanrayana told reporters here on Saturday.

 We have been telling all these days that sand mafia has been minting money with Party cadre running the syndicate. The state has enormously increased the rate of sand from Rs 60 to Rs 500 per cubic metre but the hike was not reflected in the government accounts which shows the large scale corruption.

The Government deciding to supply sand at free of cost to the poor vindicates our stand that sand mafia has been looting public money.