KCR to showcase Mission Bhagiratha to Narendra Modi

After giving a power point presentation on irrigation projects and their redesigning in the Assembly, Chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao is likely to give another power point presentation on Mission Bhagiratha project, it's functioning, and benefits during prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Telangana to inaugurate various development projects.

Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate Mission Bhagiratha in Gajwel in Medak district when he visits Telangana on Augusts 7.

The ongoing works on mission Bhagiratha (water grid) at Kadam project was shot, using drone cameras by the experts came from Hyderabad at the behest of top irrigation department officials.

Deputy Engineer of the Kadam water grid Venkatapathi, who supervised the shooting said Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao would use this footage  in a power point presentation, showing Mission Bhagiratha’s  implementation at various places in the state, during PM’s visit.

Work on the Kadam water grid was taken up at a cost of Rs 400 crore. The TS government has been appealing to the Centre for special funds for flagship programs, Mission Bhagiratha and Mission Kakatiya, the PM’s visit serving as the ideal occasion to showcase these projects. It would draw attention to the scheme and justify the seeking of funds.

Digital India mania on FB in rural Telangana

Thousands of netizens have been changing their Facebook profiles replacing with tricolors of National flag and Digital India for the last two days extending their support to Digital India concept and to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Even Facebook users in the rural areas and small towns of this Adilabad district of Telangana also changed their profiles’ background using ‘fb.com/ supportdigitalindia’.

Both Mark Zuckerberg and Narendra Modi had changed the background of their Facebook profiles just after their meeting and now it has gone viral on Facebook.

Union Ministry of Information and Broadcast has also changed the background of its page on Facebook and replaced with tricolors.         

Digital India concept came up for discussion during the interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Zuekerberge at Facebook office in USA during Narendra Modi’s visit.

Earlier, the central government promoted the concept of the Swach Bharath and now Digital India through social media networking sites.

Sanjeev Gaddam of interior Kubeer mandal of this district said ‘he changed his Facebook profile to support the digital India concept being promoted by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi while recalling that Zeckerbrge first changed his profile to support the Digital India.

He said the changing the Facebook profile indicates the aspiration of the young generation even from rural areas and small towns in Adilabad district to be part of digital India and looking for opportunities. It is noticeable that people in the information technology are more inclined to change the background of their Facebook profiles.

However, changing his profile to support Digital India by Zuckerberg has snowballed into a controversy as it was allegedly linked to Facebook’s Internet .org programme.