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`Business big shots keen to set shop in Vizag'

By Our Special Correspondent

VISAKHAPATNAM, JULY 1. Top business houses -- Reliance, Ruias and Hindujas -- have evinced a lot of interest in setting up new industries along the Visakhapatnam-Kakinada belt. Disclosing this to reporters here on Thursday, the Tirumala-Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) Chairman, T. Subbarami Reddy, said he had accompanied the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, and the Industries Minister, B. Sathyanarayana, recently to Mumbai and met top Indian industrialists.

The Chief Minister invited them to set up new industries and promised all facilities for their ventures, he said.

Noting that unemployment among the youth could be resolved only by setting up more industries and through self-employment schemes and assistance from banks, Mr. Subbarami Reddy said that as a Rajya Sabha member and AICC secretary, he would strive to guide the youth in that direction.

Another problem in the Visakhapatnam urban area was housing. The poor were living on lands belonging to the Railways, the Defence Department and the Government. The Revenue Department had been requested to prepare a comprehensive scheme to resolve the housing problem, he stated.

TTD to perform Varuna Yagam

The TTD chief said that there was a proposal to organise Varuna Yagams for rain. He however, clarified that they would be funded solely by the public and neither the Government nor the TTD would spend for it. "The monsoon has been very erratic in the past few years and this year too, the prospects are not very bright. Some elders have suggested performing Varuna Yagams for rains. This will be in addition to the efforts being made by the Chief Minister towards artificial rains," he said. A Veda Sadassu will be organised in Tirupati in November with eminent scholars participating in it. He had organised a similar meet in 1991 during his first term as TTD Chairman, he recalled. Mr. Reddy said he had appealed to the religious heads to refrain from making controversial statements on the TTD affairs. "I have spoken to the China Jeeyar Swami as to Swami Swaroopanandendra Saraswathi of Sarada Peetham and Jayendra Saraswathi Swami of Kamakoti Peetham on this.

The thousand-pillar mandapam which was demolished will be reconstructed. Accommodation for an additional 20,000 pilgrims visiting the Tirumala temple will be created in a couple of years,'' Mr. Subbarami Reddy said.

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