By SNV Sudhir
Visakhapatnam, June 12, 2014: The seven hour long marathon
maiden historic cabinet meeting of the state government held in the Port City
on Thursday, has decided to appoint
three subcommittees to look into various issues. State Cabinet also decided to
seek Centre’s assistance on waiving farm loans after the committee appointed by
the state government to look into the issue submits report on June 22.
While one sub committee was appointed to finalise the
modalities on grounding long pending LNG project at Gangavaram Port in Vizag,
another one for the implementation of NTR Sujala Sravananthi scheme, which is
one of the top five priorities of the Naidu government, the third one is to
review the corruption that took place during 10 year Congress rule and take
back the properties, lands from those who got them through corrupt practices.
“It’s an historic
cabinet meeting as it’s the first one after the state is divided. I have
decided to hold the first cabinet meeting here in Vizag is to send a message to
public that state government will show equal importance to all the regions and
the overall development of the state. We have held party meet Mahanadu at Hyderabad , CLP meeting at Tirupaty, swearing in of the new
government near Vijayawada
and the first cabinet meeting here in Vizag,” he said.
Naidu said that,
under NTR Sujala Sravanthi, 20lts of mineral water will be supplied at a cost
of Rs 2 and it will be implemented through integration of irrigation, municipal
administration and rural development ministries. To finalise the modalities and
implementation of the scheme, a cabinet sub committee was formed, he said. He
added that also under the new water scheme, households in towns and rural
tracts will get round the clock water supply for which water from irrigation
projects would be used.
“A cabinet sub committee is being appointed to look into the
corruption during 10 years of Congress rule. The committee will also take steps
to take back the government properties, lands and assets from those who got
them through corrupt practices. There is no hidden agenda or vendetta in
appointing such committee. It’s only to make sure the state government
functions in transparent manner. While the central Agencies like CBI does its
works, this is an initiative by the state government to weed out corruption,”
he said.
Naidu further said that, the Cabinet has decided to prepare
5 white papers to show public on how the Congress government has destroyed the
state pushed it into crisis. The White Papers will be on social sector,
infrastructure and employment, Irrigation projects, power and financial status
of the state. The state level bankers
committee meeting will be convened as and when the committee on loan waiver
submits its report and after seeking Centre’s help modalities will be worked
out on how to implement it He assured
that Bans do not send notices to farmers for non payment of loans and they get
fresh loans by Khariff.
Cabinet also discussed at length, the remaining of the top
five priorities of the state government, enhancement of retirement age of state government staff, eradication of belt
shops, pensions for elderly and handicapped.
“ There is some technical problem in implementing the
enhancement of retirement to those Andhra employees who are now working
temporarily in Telangana government. We will offer the same benefit to them
also without any service break after they are allotted to us permanently. Until
now the state government employees and central services staff are allotted to
state temporarily,” he added.
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