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HAPPY INDEPENDANCE DAY

 

 

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At least 550 companies and corporate houses have registered their Head offices in Visakhapatnam, starting from June 2, on which date the new state of Telangana came into being. Oil majors like HPCL, IOCL and BPC have registered their offices in the city. The commercial taxes department in Visakha used to get Rs. 120 crore in tax collection till now. But for the month of June, the department got Rs. 720 crore in tax collection. The three oil majors alone aacount for Rs.606 crore. More companies are preparing to shift base from Telangana to AP. 

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త్వరలోనే విశాఖ నగరానికి మెట్రో రైలు వస్తుందని మంత్రి గంటా శ్రీనివాసరావు తెలిపారు. ఆయన నేడు విశాఖలో ఏడుగురు ఎమ్మెల్యేలతో భేటీ అయ్యారు. ఈ సందర్భంగా ఆయన మాట్లాడుతూ, మెట్రో ప్రాజెక్టు విషయమై త్వరలోనే అధికారిక నిర్ణయం వెలువడుతుందని అన్నారు. 

అంతేగాకుండా, గ్రేటర్ విశాఖ పరిధిలో ప్లాస్టిక్ సంచులను నిషేధిస్తున్నట్టు చెప్పారు. స్థానిక మురళీ నగర్ పారిశుద్ధ్య బాధ్యతను స్థానిక సంఘాలకు అప్పగిస్తున్నట్టు తెలిపారు

 

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త్వరలోనే విశాఖ నగరానికి మెట్రో రైలు వస్తుందని మంత్రి గంటా శ్రీనివాసరావు తెలిపారు. ఆయన నేడు విశాఖలో ఏడుగురు ఎమ్మెల్యేలతో భేటీ అయ్యారు. ఈ సందర్భంగా ఆయన మాట్లాడుతూ, మెట్రో ప్రాజెక్టు విషయమై త్వరలోనే అధికారిక నిర్ణయం వెలువడుతుందని అన్నారు. 

అంతేగాకుండా, గ్రేటర్ విశాఖ పరిధిలో ప్లాస్టిక్ సంచులను నిషేధిస్తున్నట్టు చెప్పారు. స్థానిక మురళీ నగర్ పారిశుద్ధ్య బాధ్యతను స్థానిక సంఘాలకు అప్పగిస్తున్నట్టు తెలిపారు

 

 

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VPT keen to partner in six-laning Anakapalle-Anandapuram stretch of NH-16,The Visakhapatnam Port Trust has proposed to partner the State Government and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in taking up the six-laning of NH-16 from Anakapalle to Anandapuram in a joint venture, Port Chairman MT Krishna Babu announced in his Independence Day address here on Friday.

 

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VPT keen to partner in six-laning Anakapalle-Anandapuram stretch of NH-16,The Visakhapatnam Port Trust has proposed to partner the State Government and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in taking up the six-laning of NH-16 from Anakapalle to Anandapuram in a joint venture, Port Chairman MT Krishna Babu announced in his Independence Day address here on Friday.

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VPT keen to partner in six-laning Anakapalle-Anandapuram stretch of NH-16,The Visakhapatnam Port Trust has proposed to partner the State Government and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in taking up the six-laning of NH-16 from Anakapalle to Anandapuram in a joint venture, Port Chairman MT Krishna Babu announced in his Independence Day address here on Friday.

 

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VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has mooted a proposal of illuminating all streets in the city with light emitting diode (LED) lights with an eye on saving energy and cutting costs. And if all goes as pwer plan, all 96,000 sodium vapour streetlights will be replaced with LEDs in a phased manner.

The Union ministry of urban development will be financially assisting GVMC in taking up the project in the public private partnership (PPP) mode. However, the proposal is still at the discussion stage and GVMC plans to only cover the existing 72 wards falling under six zones, excluding the newly-merged Bheemili and Anakapalle.

Confirming these plans, GVMC commissioner MV Satyanarayana said that as per instructions from the Union ministry concerned, GVMC had drawn up proposals to illuminate all streets with LEDs but the project was still at a preliminary stage.

""If we replace all the sodium vapour streetlights with LEDs, we require nearly Rs 70 to 80 crore. We are in talks with the central government for assistance in getting authorized agencies like Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) to take up the project. While for the first five years GVMC will have to pay Rs 26 crore to the agency, the entire system will be handed over to us after that,"" he said.

Meanwhile, officials from GVMC's electrical wing said that if the project materialises the civic body would be able to save nearly 50% of the money it currently coughs up by way of electricity charges for illuminating the city's streets to Eastern Power Distribution Company of AP Ltd (APEPDCL).

SSR Varma, deputy electrical engineer, GVMC, said the corporation currrently pays Rs 1.96 crore per month to APEPDCL for supplying power to illuminate as many as 96,000 streetlights in the city, excluding Bheemili and Anakapalli. This translates into a power bill of Rs 23.52 crore.

""If all these 96,000 streetlights are replaced with LED lamps, GVMC will be able to save nearly 50% of its electricity charges every month, which works out to a saving of Rs 11.76 crore per annum. At present, there are only around 180 LED lamps in some places like Marikavalasa and Kommadi in the city that were put up on a pilot basis,"" Varma said.

However, a senior EPDCL official pointed out that while a 50-60 watt LED lamp gives the same illumination as a 200-250 watt sodium vapour lamp, the initial cost of installing LEDs is very expensive as each LED streetlight system would cost nearly Rs 25,000 as against Rs 2,000 for each sodium vapour lamp.

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VISAKHAPATNAM: In 2002, the Royal Dutch Embassy had offered to help develop the former Dutch colony of Bheemili, which was established way back in 1651, as a heritage site. The embassy held a two-day workshop and prepared a list of buildings that could be conserved.

In fact, a senior Intach (The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage) member recollects how Chandana Khan, who heads the tourism and archaeology departments of residuary AP, attended the workshop then in the capacity of tourism secretary of unified AP and agreed to the need to protect monuments from further demolition.

Cut to 2014: most of the heritage sites that defined this erstwhile Dutch settlement are gone, replaced by ugly concrete structures. More than 16 major buildings and sites were identified for their historic and heritage value but today, unfortunately, 70% of them are gone, point out Intach members. S S Robert, who was instrumental in restoring the Dutch cemeteries in Bheemilipatnam using funds from the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia around three decades ago, rued the loss of heritage buildings and structures in the town. "Due to rapid and unplanned urbanization, almost all British and Dutch heritage structures are gone," he said. Agreeing, Intach Vizag member Rani Sarma said: "Sadly only a handful of sites and some ugly and inaccurate concrete sculptures are all that is left here because the government did not show the spine to deal with land sharks and real estate crooks."

According to her, the biggest mistake AP made was to club tourism and archaeology departments together. "Unfortunately the combined department failed in both the endeavours, to protect heritage monuments and promote tourism," she said.

However, Chandana Khan, special chief secretary (tourism) and chairman-managing director of AP Tourism Development Corporation (APTDC), said: "We have done our best to collaborate with organisations such as Intach. However, nothing came of it as there were too many organizations involved and, above all, many of the structures were not listed as heritage structures and were mostly privately owned."

Concurring with Khan, a former Bheemili resident, K Narayana, who still owns some heritage structures in the town, said, "This is true. Many of the people who owned buildings within the Old Fort complex and around were private landowners. They feared the government would snatch it all away from them in the name of heritage conservation and preferred to sell them to realtors."

Besides privately-owned properties, the absence of an established heritage conservation committee is also aiding this destruction. "The problem persists because we don't have any heritage conservation committee nor does Intach have any locus standi legally. They don't have the power to implement or commence conservation and restoration works," said Sohan Hatangadi, heritage conservationist and life member of Intach.

But Sarma is still optimistic about giving Bheemili a facelift. "Whatever is left of it is still good enough to be showcased. At least the public buildings like the municipality building, customs house as well as portions of the governor's bungalow, the clock tower and the choultry can still be restored and conserved," she suggested.

 

 

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CSR funds for VIMS mooted

It is planned to mobilise Rs. 60 crore from various industries

An exercise has been launched to mop up Rs.60 crore from various industries under the corporate social responsibility to make Visakha Institute of Medical Sciences operational.

After completion of its first phase by spending Rs.55 crore, the buildings at Adarshnagar on the site alienated to the Health Department from the erstwhile Dairy Farm, the project hit a roadblock for want of funds to buy equipment.

Eight lakh square feet of built-up area was created five years ago. The imposing building now exists in part of 110 acres allotted to VIMS, proposed to be developed on the lines of Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad.

“It suffered labour pain for five long years. Now we want to make it operational by asking the industries like HPCL, RINL, NTPC, and Visakhapatnam Port to allot CSR funds to start it with 200 beds as soon as possible,” an official of AP Medical Service and Infrastructure Development Corporation told The Hindu.

The idea to put pressure on the industries was mooted early this month during a review meeting held after a visit to VIMS by Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas and Minister for Panchayati Raj Ch. Ayanna Patrudu.

Originally, VIMS, which was sanctioned in 2005 with 15 blocks at an estimated cost of Rs.209 crore should have been made operational with 450 beds and six blocks by mid-2006. Owing to resource crunch, at one point of time, the Andhra Pradesh government (before bifurcation) set up a committee headed by retired Principal Secretary, Health, G. Kumaraswamy Reddy to find ways and means to make the ambitious project operational. The committee’s recommendation to start it by involving BOT operators and collect user charges had to be dropped midway-through following a ruckus created by opposition parties.

Health city plan

VIMS is a part of a project to develop the area from Adarshnagar to Pineapple Colony and Mudasarlova into a Health City. CARE, Apollo and other corporate hospitals have acquired lands in the area to set up multi-speciality hospitals, which are at various stages of construction.

 

 

 

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Proposal at an advanced stage of consideration. The city already has one million square feet of built-up infrastructure, with four functional IT Special Economic Zones viz., two at Madhurawada and one each at Gambheeram and Visakhapatnam Special Economic Zones.

With a view to instil confidence among investors, the State government is toying with the idea of locating the Directorate of Information Technology & Communication (IT&C) in Visakhapatnam.

A source in the IT&C Department told The Hindu that the proposal was at advanced stage of consideration. Interestingly, Visakhapatnam accounted for a business turnover of Rs. 1,450 crore during the last fiscal as against Rs. 63,000 crore in Hyderabad. In its new IT policy, the government promises to create a built-up area of five crore square feet and five lakh jobs, of which five lakh sq. ft. will be developed in Visakhapatnam by 2020. The city already has one million square feet of built-up infrastructure, with four functional IT Special Economic Zones viz., two at Madhurawada and one each at Gambheeram and Visakhapatnam Special Economic Zones. Tech Mahindra and Wipro have also sought SEZ status for their future projects.

“With a cosmopolitan culture and an international airport, other cities stand nowhere compared to Visakhapatnam. Hence, not only the Directorate, the Department of IT&C should be shifted to Visakhapatnam ,” CII Visakhapatnam zone IT cell chairman O. Naresh Kumar said, adding that the government’s announcement on the setting up of the APIIC Executive Officer’s office here should be implemented immediately. “Our city is the 10 largest contributor to GDP with good connectivity. We are ahead of other towns and cities in IT infrastructure. Hence, it deserves to be promoted as a leading IT hub,” said Govinda Rao, advisor to Vizag IT Association (VITA).

Keywords: Andhra Pradesh IT Directorate, at Visakhapatnam likely, ITSEZ Madhurawada, 

 

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Navy opposes international airport at Vizag

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cites security reasons; Bheemunipatnam being considered, says Minister. The government has also identified another 1,300 acres at Bheemunipatnam for allotment to the film industry. He said there was lot of scope for Visakhapatnam to be developed into financial capital of Andhra Pradesh.

Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Minister Ch. Ayyanna Patrudu said that the naval authorities were objecting to the proposal to develop an international airport at Atchuthapuram near Visakhapatnam citing security concerns.

Talking to reporters in AP Assembly lobbies on Monday, he said that an alternative location at Bheemunipatnam was being looked into in view of the objections from naval authorities . He said that more than 1,400 acres was available at Bheemunipatnam for the proposed airport and an expert committee from the Union Government had recently visited various places to identify suitable location.

He said Atchutapuram would have been ideally suited for international airport as it was centrally located. The Minister said that building a modern international airport at Visakhapatnam was a prime requisite as tourists always complained about lack of adequate connectivity to the port city.

He said the government has also identified another 1,300 acres at Bheemunipatnam for allotment to the film industry. He said there was lot of scope for Visakhapatnam to be developed into financial capital of Andhra Pradesh.

Regarding the proposed NTR Srujala Sravanti scheme to provide 20 litres water at Rs.2 to each family from October 2, Mr. Patrudu said that 20 companies have come forward to implement, including one from the Tata’s group. He said the companies have also suggested to the government not to enhance electricity tariff for seven years for the mineral water plants.

He said the Cabinet would take a decision on the companies to be entrusted with the project and also on their request on power tariff.

Keywords: Internatoinal airport, Visakhapatnam Navy opposes, Bheemunipatnam land identified