The Andhra Pradesh Government will extend all support to industrialists to set up units, especially in districts such as Srikakulam, to improve the living standards of local people, according to the Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah.
He was speaking here on Saturday evening after inaugurating the Trimex beach sand mineral project near Srikurmam.
visakhapatnam, June 20: Lashing out against the mega electricity projects being taken up in Srikakulam and Nellore (14 of them), Ms Medha Patkar called these a waste of unrenewable sources of energy.
June 3: Beginning this year, the Agency areas of north Andhra districts of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, besides Adilabad would have roads worth Rs 1,500 crore over a period of five years. Announcing this here on Thursday, the Araku MP and chairman of Parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises, Mr Y.
May 27: The north coastal Andhra districts of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam experienced severe heat wave conditions, recording highest temperatures for the year on Thursday.
A Division Bench of Andhra Pradesh High Court has ordered notices in a case filed challenging the permission accorded by the Government to set up a coal-based power plant near Sompeta in Srikakulam district.
Hyderabad, April 12: When state-owned Power Generation Corporation (Genco) proposed setting up a thermal project in the backward Srikakulam district, it was hoped that the region would benefit. But the environment ministry has objected to the situation of the proposed plant on a lagoon, and Genco had no choice but to drop the plan.
Visakhapatnam, April 2: Mercury has shot up generating heat wave conditions in coastal Andhra Pradesh. Except for the city and Kalingapatnam in Srikakulam district, temperatures have gone up in the entire coastal Andhra during the last 24 hours with Nellore recording a maximum temperature of 41 degrees Celsius.
It didn’t take much for the late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to promise free power to farmers. The gambit paid off too, as he returned to power in the 2009 assembly elections.
The fisherfolk from Sompeta expressed their protest against the proposed thermal power plant (2,640 MW) to be set up by the NCC group in the district at a meeting presided over by the Joint Collector, Mr E. Sridhar.
Srikakulam, Dec. 29: Former MLA and district president of Telugu Desam, Mr Gouthu Shyama Sundar Sivaji led a group of unemployed youth to Collectorate in a rally favouring thermal project coming up in Sompeta.
