Political leadership seems to be occupying the minds of union urban development ministry mandarins as is evident from an official release on a Tamil Nadu proposal on Thursday which mentioned "Tamil Naidu" a couple of times.
Senior BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu heads the ministry, which issued a press statement on Tamil Nadu's proposal on a Rs.3,249-crore project under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) programme.
It is an open secret that Naidu visits Tamil Nadu's capital Chennai regularly and his party BJP is eager to expand its presence in the southern state.
Under the AMRUT scheme, as much as 97 percent of the proposed outlay under the annual action plan for 2015-16 will be for water supply schemes in the state, the ministry said in a statement.
An inter-ministerial apex committee headed by the union urban development secretary will soon take a decision on the state government's proposals, the statement added.
