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PG centre to be named after M.R. Appa Rao

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Chief Minister responds positively to local MLA Meka Venkata Pratapa Appa Rao’s plea

Favourably responds to MLA’s request for bypass road for Nuzvid
Says State sparing no effort to get best MSP for paddy

NUZVID: The post-graduation centre here would be named after well-known educationist, former minister and former Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University M.R. Appa Rao, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy announced on Friday.

Dr. Reddy was responding to an appeal made by local MLA Meka Venkata Pratapa Appa Rao at a public meeting he addressed after laying the foundation stone for the APIIIT campus being set up under the Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies.

Sagar project

The Chief Minister also favourably responded to the MLA’s request for a bypass road for Nuzvid, and said that the upland areas around Nuzvid would have assured water supply once the modernisation of Nagarjuna Sagar Project was taken up with an expenditure of Rs.3,500 crores. Another 20,000 acres would get water under Polavaram project.

Complimenting the district administration for ensuring bank linkage and loans to self-help group women, Dr. Reddy said the total disbursal by the banks would reach Rs.350 crores in this financial year. Of this, Rs.240 crores had already been disbursed. The Government was not sparing any effort to get the best Minimum Support Price (MSP) for paddy. An earnest effort was being made to take the current year’s MSP of Rs.775 a quintal for paddy to Rs.900 to Rs.950 a quintal by next year, he noted.

The MLA, while heaping praises on the Chief Minister, requested for the ring road project worth Rs.7 crores. He also wanted sanction of Rs.7 crores for a social welfare girl’s school and compensation for 1,400 farmers who lost heavily due to use of spurious seed in 2005-06. He said that the 80-acre land for the APIIIT was secured after 14 litigants agreed in the presence of the Chief Minister to withdraw court cases pertaining to the land.

Buffaloes distributed

MLC Paladugu Venkata Rao described Dr. Reddy as a person “who evolved the Congress party in Andhra Pradesh” in the line of several other stalwarts.

The Chief Minister, after laying the foundation for APIIIT, also laid the foundation for an integrated hostel for SC, ST and BC students to be constructed at a cost of Rs.1.68 crores. He distributed buffaloes to 150 beneficiaries of Nuzvid, Agiripalli and Musunuru mandals under Pasu Kranthi Pathakam and handed over 10 tricycles to the physically challenged.

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