The Justice M.B. Shah Commission inquiring into illegal mining across the country has finally landed in the state which has been emerging as the epicentre for the loot of minerals and ores by mining barons.
Though delayed, the commission will probe illegal mining in various districts including Anantapur where Mr Gali Janardhan Reddy’s Obulapuram Mining Company allegedly plundered precious ore worth thousands of crores of rupees and exported it. Mr Janardhan Reddy was arrested by the CBI along with then mines secretary Y. Srilakshmi and then mines director V.D. Rajagopal in the mining scam.
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation is funding a pilot project to enable the state’s farmers to reverse the environmental degradation and rural poverty in the state by applying scientific methods to groundwater management.
Baseline studies jointly conducted by the FAO, Centre and state government have identified seven districts in Andhra Pradesh to effectively implement the best practices in sustainable cropping patterns to combat climate change.
Almost 10 per cent of villages in the state have been freshly earmarked to receive notifications under the Andhra Pradesh Water, Land and Trees Act, 2002.
The villages have been identified by the groundwater department here that has asked the state government to strictly check deep-bore drilling in about 2,500 villages that are to be notified in a fresh move this year.
Ground water levels are depleting fast in the State. Latest studies by the ground water department reveal that all districts in the state have witnessed a critical fall in the water table. Dr K.
Twelve thousand trees will be felled to make way for the three proposed radial roads — Nagole-Gouralli, Tarnaka-Keesara Jeedi-metla-Dundigal — connecting to the high speed corridor Outer Ring Road
Ongole, Dec. 22: Chirala Congress MLA Amanchi Krishnamohan here on Wednesday demanded the cancellation of the ultra mega power pro-ject at Nayunipalli in Vetapalem mandal of the distr-ict. Referring to the notification to acquire lands, he demanded its revocation as 50,000 persons would be displaced due to the project.
Hyderabad, July 7: The state housing department has built just 219 houses of the one lakh that the Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, had promised would be constructed for victims of the floods in Kurnool, Mahbubnagar, Prakasam and Guntur districts last year.
ONGOLE, June 18: Victims of Laila cyclone are unhappy over the visit of the central insp-ection team which is coming to Prakasam district on June 24 to assess damages.
They expressed fear of not getting aid from the union government as the inspection was too late to assess damage with cyclone-hit areas back to normalcy.
