Response to the report of the Joint Committee on behalf of the applicants in the matter of E.A.S. Sarma & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 13/04/2021. The matter related to illegal dredging and discharge of dredge spoil into the mangroves in violation of CRZ Notification of 2011 …
Kakinada, April 25: Drinking water pilferage is rampant in East Godavari district of seven municipalities and two municipal corporations. Hundreds of people including owners of hotels in towns and cities use motor pumps to draw huge quantum of drinking water from the municipal pipelines and taps, leaving thousands of residents …
Kakinada, April 20: Leaders and activists of the Telugu Desam party under the leadership of former minister, Mr Chikkala Ramachandra Rao, and the MLC, Mr N. Chinarajappa, alleged that the minister for rural development, Mr Vatti Vasanta Kumar, had deviated from the guidelines of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …
Fishermen have agreed to allow the GMR barge mounted power plant to sail to Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh on Monday morning if the dredging works initiated at the estuary at Old Port on Saturday by GMR-Energy is completed satisfactorily. A meeting was convened by Deputy Commissioner V Ponnuraj on Sunday …
RAJAHMUNDRY, Feb. 9: Displaced people in the Kakinada special economic zone (KSEZ) in both Uppada-Kothapalli and Tondangi mandals of East Godavari seek implementation of the rehabilitation package. In total, 9,800 acres, mostly agricultural land, was set to be acquired in both mandals in the district. This is in addition to …
Water pipeline laid to villages in Gadimoga and Bhairavapalem MDR will help villagers to transport fish and other perishables Kakinada: The Rural Water Supply (RWS) scheme and Main District Road (MDR) at Gadimoga which were inaugurated by the Chief Minister K. Rosaiah on Wednesday, marked a significant progress in the …
Special Economic Zones are nothing but special exemption zones and there is no reason to exempt these from all law. Hence, scrap these, is the recommendation of the Committee on Land Reforms and Agrarian Relations set up by the Union government to advise it on issues ranging from land reforms …
Sixty-eight of the notified 320 special economic zones (SEZs) in India are located in Andhra Pradesh, making that the highest number of notified SEZs in any state. In terms of the total formal approvals for SEZs, Andhra Pradesh has 102 approvals, coming second to the 109 in Maharashtra. The Andhra …
April 30: The state government has lost the first ever city gas project to a lesser known Central agency, Bhagyanagar Gas Limited. The BGL grabbed the project even after the petroleum giant Reliance Indu-stries Limited (RIL) had bid on behalf of the state government-owned Krishna Godavari Gas Network Limited (KGGNL). …
The paddy-rich coastal Andhra region is turning into a new battleground for anti-special economic zone movement. The ongoing agitation by farmers against the proposed multi-purpose SEZ near the port city of Kakinada has received a major boost with Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar throwing her weight behind the …
Protest against setting up of SEZ turns violent A Nandigram-type agitation is brewing in the coastal region of Andhra Pradesh. The protests against a proposed special economic zone (SEZ) near Kakinada in east Godavari district took a violent turn today with several villagers clashing with police and obstructing the land …
Kakinada: The takeover bid of land by special economic zone (SEZ) promoters with the assistance of revenue and police force was opposed by farmers in both Uppada Kothapalli and Tondangi mandals in East Godavari on Tuesday. Farmers were supported by farm workers who also turned up in large numbers and …
Kakinada, Nov. 24: Sea erosion along the Uppada coast in the suburbs of Kakinada for four kms is likely to get permanent reprieve in the next few months. The authorities who tried different methods to arrest sea erosion finally found the geo-tube technology suitable. The completion of a geo- tube …
Kakinada, Sept. 10: The wildlife divisional forest officer (DFO), Mr K. Govinda Rao, claims the department has been taking all necessary precautions for the safety of the turtles during the nesting season. "We post guards along the coast in the nesting season to curtail the menace of foxes and dogs," …
Hyderabad, Aug. 12: Reliance Industries has decided to go ahead with crude oil production from the Krishna-Godavari (K-G) basin Dhirubhai-26 fields as there are no legal restrictions on oil production from the basin. RIL sources said production of crude oil will start from the third week of September and an …
Private infrastructure company GMR will replace state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in the proposed Rs 31,000-crore refinery and petrochemical plant at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh. The exit follows the country's largest oil and gas producer's claims over the past year that the project was unviable. ENTRY STRATEGY # …
