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Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan connected Thursday appealed to the fisherfolk to assistance him 100 days to plan an enactment program and make a broad roadmap to code their livelihood concerns and curb marine contamination on the Uppada coast.
Addressing the fisherfolk astatine a nationalist gathering successful Uppada aft elaborate interactions with the sportfishing assemblage representatives, Mr. Pawan Kalyan said; “Three days from now, I myself volition task into the oversea to presumption the spots wherever concern effluents are being released by industries betwixt Nakkapalli SEZ and the Uppada coast, wherever much than 7,100 fisherfolk families eke retired a living.”
Cannot endanger industries
The Deputy Chief Minister asserted that threatening industrialists would ne'er pb to a imperishable solution to the problems of fisherfolk. He said: “I cannot endanger industrialists to support the concerns of fisherfolk. I impulse the fisherfolk not to autumn into the trap of politicians who instigate radical successful the sanction of justice. Instead, let maine to travel retired with an enactment program wrong 100 days.”
Referring to the details of his gathering with fisherfolk successful Kakinada connected Thursday, Mr. Pawan Kalyan said; “I volition not deceive the fisherfolk, who clarified that they won’t reason industries. Their lone interest is that untreated concern effluents are being released into the sea, causing marine contamination and impacting their livelihood.” The companies that are allegedly causing the contamination were acceptable up during the tenure of erstwhile Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, Mr. Pawan Kalyan added.
Pollution audit
Mr Pawan Kalyan announced that a contamination audit of each coastal industries—beginning from the Nakkapalli SEZ to the units of Divis, Aurobindo, and Deccan groups—would beryllium undertaken wrong the adjacent 100 days. “Simultaneously, an thought is being contemplated connected for a broad compensation program akin to the 1 offered by ONGC to fisherfolk. Such a program would besides beryllium apt replicated crossed the State,” said Mr. Pawan Kalyan.
On the measures to forestall coastal erosion on the Uppada coastal belt, Mr. Pawan Kalyan said that the Central authorities has successful principle, agreed to authorisation ₹250 crore for the operation of a oversea extortion wall. “However, I volition impulse the Centre to summation the backing for the extortion partition to ₹323 crore successful the adjacent gathering scheduled connected October 14.”
He further assured the assemblage that they would beryllium updated regularly connected the advancement by the State authorities related to their issues. Further talks would beryllium held until a imperishable solution is recovered to their concerns.
Fish landing
Addressing the caller quality implicit food landing points successful the Krishna-Godavari region, Mr. Pawan Kalyan announced that fisherfolk of Antarvedi, Machilipatnam and Nizampatnam person agreed to let Uppada sportfishing boats to usage their landing centres, with a condition— provided they debar utilizing ringing nets to support marine species.
On Thursday, Mr. Pawan Kalyan announced ₹5 lakh ex-gratia to each of the families of the 18 fishermen who mislaid their lives astatine oversea successful caller months successful Kakinada district.
