HYDERABAD: After spending about Rs 23 crore from MP Local Area of Development funds in the past five years in his constituency, Secunderabad BJP MP Bandaru Dattatreya said he was not satisfied with the works taken up during his tenure and would have done more.He blamed the state government, particularly Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), for the “abnormal” delay in the completion of works sanctioned under MPLADS by him.The former Union minister, during the Times Conversation held in association with The Park, Somajiguda, on Monday, said: “Many works I sanctioned come under state government agencies. The GHMC has been taking three years for preparing estimations and completing tender process. As a result, the works were not getting completed during the five year tenure of the MP. Some works that I had proposed in 2003 when I was MP got completed in 2014 after I became an MP again after losing two elections in 2004 and 2009. I finally got to inaugurate these works in 2014.”The BJP MP had recommended a total of 231 works to the tune of Rs 34.79 crore. But the Hyderabad district administration, after scrutiny, sanctioned only 193 works to the tune of Rs 23 crore from MPLADS.He said he always gave priority to housing schemes, and when he was Union minister of state for urban development, he had launched the Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana to build houses for the poor. About 3,000 houses were sanctioned in Hyderabad during the NDA-1 government. “I proposed 2 BHK houses for many areas. Now the Telangana government has taken up 2 BHK housing scheme with contribution of the Centre, but due to land and financial problems, it has not been able to complete it. As a result, there are many slums in Secunderabad LS constituency, making it all the more necessary for taking up the housing programme,” the MP said.

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