hyderabad former telangana minister and congress leader mohammed ali shabbir has said he would undertake a 70km padayatra seeking completion of package22 works on pranahita chevella project which would irrigate 35 lakh acres in kamareddy yellareddy and parts of ramayampetaddressing a meeting in bhiknoor mandal in kamareddy constituency on tuesday shabbir ali strongly criticised the state government for not releasing rs 200 crore which would have enabled the completion of package22 works on the pranahita chevella projectthe foundation stone for the pranahita chevella project was laid in 2008 by the then chief minister y s rajashekhar reddy as a cabinet minister and local mla i got approvals for rs 1400 crore to bring godavari river water to the kamareddy constituency but cm kcr has stopped the release of funds since 2014 due to which the package22 works are pending no recurring costs are involved in this project as it brings water through gravity he saidtelangana congress president a revanth reddy and other senior national leaders of the congress party will participate in the padayatra the schedule of which will be announced sooncm kcr is not willing to release rs 200 crore for kamareddy while trs govt had spent over rs 1 lakh crore on kaleshwaram project cm kcr is focussed only on gajwel sircilla and siddipet constituencies represented by him his son ktr and nephew harish rao respectively is it not an injustice to the people of other constituencies which are being neglected he askedhe blamed the bjp government at the centre and trs government in telangana for rising unemployment bjp govt is selling away national assets in the name of national monetisation pipeline nmp the trs government is selling away government lands to mobilise funds both the governments are working for the welfare of few corporates while neglecting the welfare of common people he alleged while expressing apprehensions that the nmp would snatch away lakhs of existing government jobs the private companies will not implement rule of reservation and therefore lakhs of poor scs sts bcs and others would lose job opportunities he saidstating that nearly 30 lakh people were jobless in telangana shabbir ali demanded that the cm kcr immediately fill nearly 25 lakh vacancies in various departments of state government and its corporations he also demanded immediate fulfillment of the promise of giving unemployment allowance of rs 3016 per month for all jobless youth in telangana