From The Hindu
Oct 21,2010
Special Correspondent
TIRUPATI: Chittoor district, especially its semi-arid track of Pileru-Kalikiri wins a bonanza from the Central government—thanks to the largesse of the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram and the perseverance of the AP Assembly Speaker, K. Kirankumar Reddy in bagging the ‘prize' as the Piler legislator.
The Central government has sanctioned to the district three institutions—CRPF Rational Training Camp and Firing Range, a BSF new battalion and State training centre and thirdly a battalion of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. It would come up at Fateghad in Kirankumar Reddy's constituency on a 415 acre site to be allotted by the state government.
The district bagged the prestigious bonanza reportedly in the face of a stiff competition from orissa which tried to hijack it to the state. In fact the AP cabinet which allotted 200 acres in Fateghad for the setting up of the CRPS Training Centre had to reportedly cancel it subsequently, in view of the centre's initial change of mind.
It was at this juncture that Kirankumar Reddy managed to get the Home Minister, P. Chidambaram to his remote Piler constituency ostensibly to inaugurate certain developmental works but the innate idea being to prevail upon him the need to sanction the facility for his place so that it could spur development of the otherwise backward area which lacked any government project worth the name. Sources quoting the Speaker, Kirankumar Reddy said that as per the Central government's latest decision.
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