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The Communist Party of India (CPI) connected Friday demanded the cancellation of the allotment of 160 acres of onshore belonging to the Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Devasthanam to backstage companies for projected information centre projects, alleging that the determination would harm the environment.
Addressing a protestation organised by the enactment astatine Sri Krishnapuram adjacent the task site, CPI State Secretariat subordinate J.V. Satyanarayana Murthy said the State authorities was pursuing policies that were detrimental to the situation adjacent arsenic World Environment Day was being observed globally. He alleged that Visakhapatnam had emerged arsenic a large contamination hotspot and criticised the authorities for failing to instrumentality capable measures to code aerial and particulate pollution.
Mr. Murthy expressed interest implicit the allotment of onshore to backstage firms successful the sanction of improvement and claimed that large-scale concern projects and information centres could adversely impact the region’s ecology. He urged the authorities to revoke each permissions granted for the projected project. CPI territory caput S.K. Rahiman and different enactment leaders participated successful the protest.
