Speaking to mediapersons at Kavali today, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister Anam Ramnarayan Reddy said funds would be allocated to municipalities as part of the programme for the development of basic infrastructure.

Vacant posts in civic bodies would be filled up in a phased manner. There was no proposal to upgrade any major panchayat into municipality, he said.

Later, the minister inaugurated a hospital and a Rama temple. Kavali municipal chairman Srinivasa Kiran, Marketing Committee chairman Y Yanadi Chetty and others were present.

Speaking at a women’s convention at Atmakur, he said the Congress-led UPA Government was determined to get the reservation bill passed in Lok Sabha to provide them greater say in policy making. Nellore MP M Rajamohan Reddy, social worker Subbamma and others were also present.