hyderabad when it came to indiramma jala prabha and the re 1akg rice scheme pet projects of chief minister n kiran kumar reddy the government splurged crores on awareness campaigns but dumped flagship projects of the late y s rajasekhara reddy regime analysts say the move is to stop ysr congress from patting on their backs the government spent rs 40 crore on awareness campaigns of schemes since it came to power in june 2009 but midway through only kiran reddys projects have got the lions share of the funds if the ysrs pet projects are publicized it will only be to the advantage of jaganmohan reddy rather than the congress because after ysrs death attempts by the congress to claim credit for some of the schemes fell flat with people identifying them only with ysr said mlc k nageshwar this has to be seen in a political context as the congress is trying to reinvent itself with new schemes said nageshwar who is also professor of journalism osmania university not surprisingly the maximum amount of money spent on the government initiatives include prajapatham programme rs 48 crore indiramma jala prabha rs 3 crore and re 1akg rice scheme rs 27 crore which were introduced or popularized by the present government at the same time schemes identified with the previous ysr government seem to have been sidelined these are abhaya hastam rs 35 lakhs fee reimbursement rs 30 lakhs a flagship project of ysr which won him huge accolades and popularity with the masses and the rajiv arogyasri rs 49 lakhs on welfare schemes of minorities the government has spent a niggardly rs 34 lakhs in the last three years after kiran kumar took up the reins some experts feel the money spent on some of the intitiatives was just hogwash to create the impression that the government was working on the issues while in reality it was the opposite what has the government actually done to protect tribals land rights said e a s sarma activist and former home secretary government of india referring to rs 22 crore spent for promotion of international tribals day activists and social analysts point out that these campaigns do not exactly serve the purpose they are meant to be this is nothing but wastage of money for self promotion and imagebuilding and not to benefit the public said d rakesh reddy who had filed an rti to get the information on the government spending on the awareness campaigns publicity has been given to those perennial schemes which make the people dependent on the rulers while they should have publicized on tools which empower people he said there has been no publicity related to rti act citizens charter voting rights and land rights he said others said that whenever there is a change of guard more money is spent on projects introduced by the new incumbent amount spent by the information and public relation i pr department for promoting government initiatives since