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YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy highlighted respective cardinal issues concerning the radical of North Andhra Region during his sojourn to Anakapalli territory connected Thursday, including the ‘Operation Lungs’, the anti-encroachment thrust undertaken by the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) successful the city.
Condemning the ‘Operation Lungs’, the erstwhile Chief Minister said 4,500 shops were removed successful the metropolis arsenic portion of the drive. “With the move, the authorities has deprived astir 32,000 radical of their livelihoods, without offering immoderate rehabilitation oregon alternatives,” Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy said.
Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy met with the protestors opposing the privatisation of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP), astatine the metropolis airport. The workers submitted a memorandum explaining astir the presumption of the works and sought the YSRCP’s continued enactment to their cause.
They urged Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy to bring unit connected the Central authorities to retreat the privatisation plan, request the allocation of exclusive captive robust ore mines to the VSP, and merge the works with the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy said that the YSRCP would proceed its combat against the VSP privatisation.
Addressing the media astatine Narsipatnam, Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy alleged that ever since the NDA authorities came to powerfulness successful the State, 32 divisions of the VSP person been heading towards privatisation.
“Around 5,000 declaration workers person been removed, portion 2,000 employees were fixed VRS. Salaries, bonuses, and arrears stay unpaid for many. Employees who questtion the absorption are being served show-cause notices,” helium said.
Referring to the decease of the inmates astatine the Kurupam Tribal Welfare Girls’ Hostel, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy said that the incidental reflects the government’s committedness to the schools.
He blamed the government’s negligence for the deaths of 2 miss students, stating that wellness screenings were conducted lone aft the deaths. He alleged that authorities person faild to repair of filters successful the RO plant, starring to h2o contamination.
Mr. Jagan besides criticised the authorities for failing to merchandise ₹35 crore to the farmers of the Chodavaram Sugar Factory, leaving astir 24,000 families successful distress. He condemned the projected Bulk Drug Park successful Payakaraopeta constituency and accused the government’s mode of handling and neglecting nationalist arsenic good arsenic biology concerns.
