5 months ago
1
Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development P. Narayana noted connected Monday (December 29, 2025) that Visakhapatnam has the highest fig of slum areas successful the State. He announced that the Velampeta slum, located successful the city, would beryllium taken up arsenic a peculiar task for broad development, and added that the crushed realities would beryllium brought to the announcement of Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu.
The Minister visited Lakshmi Nagar slum astatine Velampeta country successful Visakhapatnam South Constituency on with Mayor Peela Srinivasa Rao, Deputy Mayor Dalli Govindaraju, South MLA Vamsikrishna Srinivas, GVMC Commissioner Ketan Garg, VMRDA Commissioner N. Tej Bharat, and section Corporator Villuri Bhaskar Rao connected Monday.
He inspected the slum and interacted with the dwellers, who told him their problems. The Mayor, MLA, Deputy Mayor, GVMC Commissioner apprised the Minister connected the contented pertaining to operation of houses successful the slum. Mr. Narayana assured nationalist representatives and section residents that each imaginable steps would beryllium taken to implicit the operation of houses astatine the earliest.
He said that the Chief Minister has directed that houses beryllium constructed instantly for the displaced families, and that peculiar enactment plans are being prepared successful this regard.
Minister for MA&UD P. Narayana interacting with locals of Velampeta country successful Visakhapatnam connected Monday. | Photo Credit: V. RAJU
The residents informed the Minister that they had been residing successful the country for astir 50 years, earning a surviving arsenic daily-wage labourers, and requested that contiguous steps beryllium taken to authorisation houses. They informed the Minister astir the hardships faced during the monsoon play and appealed for the operation of houses for 177 families, on with the proviso of basal amenities.
The Minister visited the houses of the displaced families. He stated that it was achy to spot families surviving successful highly tiny spaces and assured them that steps would beryllium taken to conception houses. He said that the crushed realities would beryllium brought to the announcement of the Chief Minister.
Speaking connected the occasion, MLA Vamsikrishna Srinivas Yadav said that the problems faced by residents of the Velampeta slum country person remained unresolved for a agelong time. He appreciated the State authorities for focusing connected its improvement and noted that, isolated from the Lakshmi Nagar layout, 5 much projects are inactive pending. He added that if these issues are addressed, the Visakhapatnam South Constituency could beryllium developed into a exemplary constituency successful the State.
Additional Commissioners of GVMC D.V. Ramanamurthy and P.M. Satyaveni, Chief Engineer P.V. Satyanarayana Raju, Zonal Commissioner M. Mallaiah Naidu, Superintending Engineers Pallamaraju and Royal Babu, Assistant Medical Officer Dr. Krishnam Raju, APD Padmavathi and others participated successful the programme.
