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Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister Ponguru Narayana connected Sunday announced plans to alteration his Nellore Assembly constituency into the district’s ‘green lung space’ by planting 50,000 trees.
He reiterated the government’s resoluteness to make Nellore arsenic a Smart City but ruled retired an Outer Ring Road (ORR) for now, citing fiscal constraints and the enlargement of the Chennai–Kolkata National Highway into a six-lane corridor with flyovers, which would importantly decongest the city.
After planting a sapling, Mr. Narayana said astir 2,000 trees—including flowering and fruit-bearing varieties—would beryllium planted astatine five-metre intervals crossed each division, inspired by Chandigarh’s high-density plantations to make afloat canopies and earthy shade.
He dismissed the ORR connection by Nellore Urban Development Authority president K. Srinivasulu Reddy arsenic “practically hard and unnecessary,” noting that Trunk Road postulation had eased aft the mini bypass and would amended further with the upgraded highway.
Mr. Narayana besides inaugurated the renovated flyover astatine Atmakur autobus stand, recalling that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu laid its instauration chromatic successful 1995.
