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The Andhra Pradesh authorities has issued a G.O. connected Tuesday (October 7, 2025) constituting a committee to code the long-pending issues being faced by the fishermen astatine Uppada and adjoining coastal villages of U. Kothapalli Mandal successful Kakinada district.
In a station connected X, Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan thanked Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Agriculture and Fisheries Minister K. Atchannaidu for their swift effect and committedness to resolving the fishermen’s problems done an organization mechanism.
According to G.O. 345, the committee comprises the Commissioners of Industries and Fisheries; the Member-Secretary, Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board; the District Collector and Magistrate, Kakinada (Member/Convener); and representatives of the fishermen assemblage to beryllium nominated by the District Collector.
The committee has been constituted to guarantee swift and transparent solution of grievances raised by the section sportfishing community, which has been suffering owed to pollution, nonaccomplishment of livelihood, design-related deficiencies, and compensation disputes.
The committee’s mandate includes examining the grievances raised by the fishermen, coordinating with the applicable departments and agencies, and ensuring relief, equitable compensation, and sustainable livelihood opportunities for the affected families.
It volition besides code immoderate different substance indispensable to safeguard the payment of the sportfishing community.
The District Collector of Kakinada has been directed to nominate representatives from the fishermen assemblage and initiate follow-up enactment arsenic Member-Convener of the committee.
It whitethorn beryllium recalled that the fishermen had staged roadworthy blockades successful September 2025 to protestation against the alleged dumping of chemic discarded into the oversea by the pharmaceutical and different companies adjacent the coast, which posed a superior menace to the food and different marine life, affecting the income of the sportfishing community. They had demanded the contiguous closure of the factories liable for the contamination and called connected the authorities to initiate beardown action.
