The Industrial Coastal Corridor Vyatireka Porata Committee demanded the withdrawal of GO Ms No. 34, relating to the coastal corridor and Kakinada special economic zones. The committee will hold a public meeting at Visakhapatnam on May 3 to highlight the effects of these two on people and to take up an agitation for the cause of the affected. These details were disclosed by committee representative and state Human Rights Forum (HRF) secretary V.S. Krishna and others.
Authorities of the horticulture and forest departments dealing with survey and compensation payment for the evacuees of the three-decade-old Somasila project have reportedly siphoned off compensation funds, meant for those who lost their trees along with their lands. Farmers said officials had created false records, mentioning the presence of hundreds of trees and thereby sharing the compensation amount.
The Rajiv Arogyasri scheme has come as a boon for the poverty stricken parents of seven-year-old Lavanya of Sanjeevapuram in Bukkara-yasamudram mandal. The little girl was suffering from congenital cardiac problems and her parents, Mr Thimmappa and Ms Bhagyalakshmi, did not have the Rs 1,00,000 required to repair her heart valves through surgery.
Steps are being taken to generate power from the first phase of the power project with a capacity of 4,000 mw in Krishnapatnam in the district in October 2013.
The Andhra Pradesh high court has ordered that authorities concerned are duty-bound to interfere and stop activities such as aquaculture to prevent damages to the irrigation systems and common
The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Dr K. Rosaiah, has decided to take up the issue of fuel allocation with the Centre and the Union Petroleum Ministry for the proposed power project in the IFFCO Kisan Special Economic Zone (SEZ) coming up in the Nellore district of the State.
July 28: While the state government is worried over the alarming increase in the price of red gram, agriculture officials are apprehensive over the utility of the seeds being supplied to farmers at 50 per cent subsidy.
Nellore, Oct. 31: The district authorities on Friday alerted the Oil and Natural Gas Commission after noticing fire coming out of a bore drilled in an aqua-culture pond in Mypadu, 30 km away from here. The blaze is emerging around 15 to 20 feet from the ground level and is blue in colour.
Visakhapatnam July 10: The state unit of CPI has decided to stage a month-long padayatra from Itchapuram in Srikakulam district to Nellore to protest against the proposed coastal corridor. The former MLA and state president of the AP Rythu Coolie Sangham, Mr K. Ramakrishna said in a meeting that the CPI would stall the project. The meeting on
