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Tirupati to turn into a model city

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Chintha Mohan lists out Central schemes

TIRUPATI: Chintha Mohan, MP, on Wednesday listed out various Central schemes which were either under way or are in the pipeline for the temple city of Tirupati.

Participating in a meet-the-press programme organised by the Tirupati Press Club on Wednesday, he said one of the schemes envisaged was to transform Tirupati into a mosquito-free and slum-free model city with a plan outlay of Rs.500 crores. He said the Administrative Staff College had been approached to prepare the project report in this connection while the Hindustan Petroleum Ltd had been asked to adopt Tirupati for 100 per cent LPG coverage to tackle air-pollution.

Blood bank

The MP hinted at a state-of-the-art blood bank coming up at Tirupati in the next two or three months in view of the increasing demand by trauma care centre for treatment of accident victims.

Trauma care centre

He said a trauma care centre had been sanctioned for S.V.R.R. Hospital at an expenditure of Rs.1.5 crores. He said a Parliamentary Committee would be visiting Sri Venkateswara Medical College and S.V.R.R. Hospital here on October 9 to take stock of their infrastructure for the purpose of upgradation.

Stating that Rs.60-crore special grants had been secured for TTD's super-specialities hospital, SVIMS, he said that the hospital had agreed to provide free medicare to all patients below the poverty line.

As for the Tirupati airport, the MP said that besides introduction of a cargo handling facility for mango and tomato farmers of Chittoor and Kadapa districts to help them market their produce in the Middle-East and other countries, the run-way was also being strengthened to handle bigger aircrafts.

Instrument Landing System (ILS) was also being installed at both the ends of the runway at a cost of Rs.35 crores.

Station at Tiruchanur

Similarly, measures are under way to commission Tiruchanur railway station with a plan outlay of Rs.24 crores and to make Tirupati-Chennai a four-lane road under the Golden Quadrilateral scheme at a cost of Rs.1,000 crores.

Another developmental work the MP highlighted was the Rs.300-crore scheme to increase the capacity of Renigunta-based railway carriage repair shop (CRS) which would indirectly provide jobs for 2,000 persons more. "We want to develop the Tirupati in the next one or two years," Mr. Mohan said.

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