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The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet connected Friday approved a bid of cardinal decisions, including authorising the AP Capital Region Development Authority to instrumentality astir 16666 acres successful 7 villages nether Land Pooling Scheme II, and different 4200 acres of assigned and Lanka lands for large projects specified arsenic the planetary airport, quantum valley, planetary sports city, interior ringing road, Amaravati railway presumption and different superior portion infrastructure.
Briefing the media, Housing and Information and Public Relations Minister Kolusu Parthasarathy said the CRDA would contented an LPS II notification successful a fewer days, adding that rules for the caller strategy were published successful July 2025. He said residents of the 7 villages, Vaikuntapuram, Pedda Madduru, Endrayi, Karlapudi, Vaddamanu, Peddaparimi and Harishchandrapuram, had already fixed consent successful Grama Sabhas and that further enactment would beryllium taken successful enactment with Section 55(2) of the APCRDA Act.
Another large determination was the conferring of Notified Partner presumption connected Raiden Infotech India Private Limited, a Google owned entity, for mounting up a 15 cardinal dollar AI information centre successful Visakhapatnam district. The Cabinet besides approved a authorities warrant for a ₹7500 crore indebtedness from the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development for infrastructure instauration successful the emerging superior city. A draught Bill amending the Municipalities Act, 1965, and Municipal Corporations Act, 1955, to supply 50% exemption connected Vacant Land Tax during the operation play was cleared.
The Cabinet approved raising a caller moving superior indebtedness of ₹5000 crore from the National Cooperative Development Corporation done AP Markfed to enactment paddy procurement for the 2025 to 26 Kharif season. It besides cleared the AP Urban Local Bodies Rules 2025 to modulate billboards, show devices and advertising, replacing the 2020 rules. The caller norms marque licensing and permissions for show structures, on with periodic structural stableness certification, mandatory.
The powerfulness discoms were permitted to get astir ₹3763 crore from NABARD with a authorities warrant to instrumentality rooftop and crushed mounted star installations for SC and ST consumers nether the PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana. The Cabinet approved allocation of the Balimela Dam Powerhouse and Jalaput Dam Powerhouse to Orissa Power Consortium Limited, successful enactment with High Court directions, with the information that fractional of the powerfulness generated should beryllium supplied to Andhra Pradesh astatine a tariff determined by the respective regulatory commission.
The Cabinet approved the instauration of a caller peculiar intent conveyance to instrumentality the revised BharatNet programme, aimed astatine gathering a precocious capableness IP MPLS web and integrating BharatNet with AP State FiberNet Limited for seamless broadband services. Administrative support for ₹543 crore for Polavaram task works was besides granted.
The revised backing signifier of 50% cardinal stock and 50% authorities stock for constructing the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade field astatine Kakinada astatine a outgo of ₹230 crore was approved.
Finally, the Cabinet cleared amendments to the RFPs and draught concession agreements for processing 10 caller aesculapian colleges successful nationalist backstage concern mode. Colleges astatine Adoni, Madanapalle, Markapuram and Pulivendula volition travel up successful the archetypal phase, followed by Penukonda, Palakollu, Amalapuram, Narsipatnam, Bapatla and Parvathipuram successful the second. Land volition beryllium leased astatine ₹100 per acre per twelvemonth and assets volition revert to the authorities aft the 33 positive 33 twelvemonth concession period. Half the seats volition autumn nether the authorities quota arsenic per NEET aligned preservation norms, and fees volition beryllium regulated by the AP Higher Education Regulatory and Monitoring Commission.
