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Andhra Pradesh Minister for IT and HRD Nara Lokesh connected Wednesday observed that lifting surplus h2o flowing into the oversea would not lone payment Andhra Pradesh but besides the full South India.
Reacting to the quality implicit the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Project, Mr. Lokesh, who was successful the metropolis to be the cross-examination successful the territory tribunal successful the lawsuit pertaining to the defamation suit helium had filed against ‘Sakshi’ Telugu daily, told the media that a fewer YSRCP leaders were raking up h2o disputes for governmental gain.
“The YSRCP had been successful powerfulness successful the twelvemonth 2020, and the enactment connected the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Project was imposed during the word of Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy arsenic Chief Minister,” Mr. Lokesh said, and accused the YSRCP of falsely projecting it arsenic a caller development.
“All the projects being taken up by the conjugation authorities are wrong Andhra Pradesh’s territory. The government’s imaginativeness is to assistance the Godavari waters lone aft they participate Andhra Pradesh and divert them to Rayalaseema,” helium said, and asserted that determination was nary volition to obstruct Telangana’s projects.
“Thousands of TMCs of floodwater are flowing into the oversea each year,” helium said. The authorities was exploring ways to assistance the surplus waters and divert them to the drought-prone Rayalaseema region, helium added.
“The inaugural is not constricted to Andhra Pradesh alone. The surplus waters tin besides beryllium supplied to Tamil Nadu done the Telugu Ganga project, making it beneficial for the full confederate portion of the country,” Mr. Lokeh argued.
Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy, who had erstwhile termed the Pattiseema task arsenic a “waste,” continued to run it during his five-year term.
Women’s information
Referring to the information of women and children, Mr. Lokesh said it was the superior work of the State authorities to guarantee the information of women and children, and support them from harassment and maltreatment connected societal media platforms. The Group of Ministers was deliberating connected measures to efficaciously code the issue, helium said.
“There ought to beryllium definite property bounds for radical to participate societal media platforms and entree contented disposable connected them. But specified norms are not being decently implemented,” helium observed.
“We volition besides analyse and survey the steps being taken by different countries to woody with the problem,” the Minister said, citing the illustration of Australia, which had banned entree to societal media for children beneath the property of 16.
A last determination volition beryllium taken aft discussing the contented with the Chief Minister and inviting suggestions from the public, helium said.
Bhogapuram airdrome
Responding to the “credit fight” implicit the Bhogapuram planetary airport, Mr. Lokesh said “the NDA is not warring for credit, but is lone moving for the people.”
“Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy had erstwhile questioned the request for the airport,” helium reminded.
During the 2014-19, the NDA authorities had allotted 2,600 acres to the GMR Group for operation of the airport. But aft to coming to powerfulness successful 2019, the YSRCP had taken backmost 600 acres. The NDA government, aft coming to powerfulness successful 2024, returned the to the GMR Group, helium said, emphasising the request to make a larger aviation ecosystem that would successful crook make employment for the section youth.
