The spectre of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy continues to haunt Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu prompting him to look for legal protection for his flagship project, Amaravati capital city, through legislation.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi.
The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday announced that Amaravati will be a self-financing capital city project without any state budgetary assistance as Finance Minister Payyavula Keshav presented an annual Budget for 2025-26 with a total outlay of Rs 3,22,359 crore.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has directed the state administration officials to improve “ease of living” and said that good governance of a state is proven only when its citizens get the benefits of all services without any delay.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said they will invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the state to lay the foundation stone for the Visakhapatnam Railway Zone which was one of the key demands of the state following bifurcation.
With the Andhra Pradesh High Court giving its green signal, preparations were in full swing for the second Maha Padyatra by farmers to demand the development of Amaravati as the state capital.
Nearly 35 per cent of the urban population live in slums. More than 50 per cent of Covid cases have been traced to slums in 12 major cities where physical distance is a far cry and containment is a huge challenge. The Government of India's provision of Rs 70,000 crore for rental housing in PPP looks like a single pony trick which achieves very little with underlying factors not being addressed. Slums have come up not because of poverty and encroachments alone, but because of lack of affordable housing on the one hand and failed policies on the other. The Town Planning Act of 1947 does not factor in the urban poor, workmen and migrant labour.
The richest religious body in the country, the TTD has been in the news of late with reports of a cash crunch following the Covid-19 induced lockdown and the resultant freeze on contributions from the devotees.
Several opposition leaders were either detained or placed under house arrest in Andhra Pradesh as protests rocked Amaravati and surrounding districts on Monday, ahead of a crucial Assembly session. Tension prevailed as people took to streets to demand that Amaravati be continued as the only state capital.
In Tamil Nadu, the Secretariat functions from Fort St George in Chennai, which belongs to the Army.
