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EPTRI now a national institute

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: The Centre has finally approved a proposal made by the State government to convert the Environmental Protection Training & Research Institute (EPTRI) at Gachibowli here, into a national institution as a joint venture.

The EPTRI has now been renamed National EPTRI with arrangements for heavy Central funding for its upgradation and expansion to meet the environmental needs of the entire country.

The interests of existing staff will be fully protected. The Centre’s approval was ratified by the Cabinet at its meeting here on Monday.

Cancer care hospital

Briefing reporters later, Information Minister J. Geeta Reddy said the Cabinet also cleared a long-pending proposal by allotting 80 acres of its land at Aganampudi near Visakhapatnam to the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), Mumbai, at Rs 1.5 lakh an acre for setting up a 100-bed, all-inclusive specialised cancer care hospital.

The Tata Memorial Centre was expected to make a huge investment to establish the facility which would be its second campus in the country.

The Cabinet ratified establishment of the AP Gas Infrastructure Corporation with APIIC and AP Genco as partners to explore and exploit oil and natural gas in the Krishna-Godavari, Pranahita-Godavari and Kadapa basins.

The corporation was set up on October 9, 2009, to use oil and natural gas, if available, for promotion of industries and for piped gas supply to households, replacing LPG.

Projects in Vizag

The Cabinet approved the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation proposal to raise a Rs 200-crore loan from agencies, as its share towards 17 projects being implemented at a cost of Rs. 1,575 crore under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.

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