AP Eng Mag April 2016

AMARAVATI : TAKING A SHAPE
Assembly Building
High Court Building
River Bund Road
Secretariat Complex
View of Government Buildings from Krishna River
The Government of Andhra Pradesh has approved these designs by the world-renowned Japanese
architectural rm Maki & Associates for capital city, Amaravati.
CONTENTS
AP Fibre Grid
Project Launched
10
Kings College
Hospital medical
facility in Amaravati
As part of the eorts to

transform the State into
'Digital Andhra Pradesh',
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu launched
the rst statewide broadband project in India.
AP Budget 2016-17
14
30
Japanese
Design for
Amaravati
Buildings
24
Amazing AP:
Undavalli
Rock-Cut Caves
Energy, Logistic
Varsities to Start
27
Happening Andhra
Direct Shipping Service
between
Krishnapatnam-Chittagong
18
Pattiseema Completed in
Record Time
Snapshot
34
Gannavaram Airport in
Expansion Mode
13 20
Forging ahead with

eGovernance
Initiatives
Andhra Pradesh hires

talent from ISB
29
32
26
21
Centre to
study LED
lighting
programme
in State
Chief Ministers
Social Network
Vizag: the most

happening city
28
Bahubali: first Telugu
film to win National
Award for Best Film
22
Various developments across the

state of Andhra Pradesh.
Start AP Fest draws big

response
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CM at Fiber Net Inauguration
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EDITORIAL
The Digital Transformation of AP
he digital transformation of Andhra Pradesh has begun. The

inauguration of Indias first statewide broadband project
AP Fiber Net in Visakhapatnam, in the presence of the Chief
Minister, is the first milestone in this historic initiative.
As the CM pointed out, a digitally empowered state can witness
an accelerated economic growth. A digitized state helps drive
GDP growth, create jobs and foster innovation. The MoU signed
between Cisco and the State Government at the same venue is
geared towards skills development for this new economy.
AP Fibre Net is a huge step towards realising the governments

vision to provide broadband on fiber to every house in the state.
This transformational project is aimed at providing on-demand,
affordable broadband connectivity of 2 to 20 Mbps for all households. The network will cover 2,500 locations and is 22,500 km
long, reaching millions of households.
When CM Chandrababu Naidu said he envisioned Andhra Pradesh
as a role model for digital transformation for other states to follow,
he meant every word of it. He had already taken a major initiative
with e-Pragati, becoming a pioneer in India to establish state-wide
enterprise architecture.
Andhra Pradesh has also taken a lead in leveraging the IoT (Internet of Things) potential in the country. The state government has
approved the first-of-its-kind IoT policy with an aim to turn the
state into an IoT hub by 2020 and tap 10 percent market share in
the country.
These steps will help make Andhra Pradesh the role model for
digital states in India. And as Nasscom president R Chandrasekhar
said in a lighter vein, it is indeed true that AP ke pas Naidu garu
hain.
Ramesh Babu Kandula

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Japanese Design for
amaravati BuilDings
aki and Associates, a

world-renowned Japanese Architecture firm, has
been finalised to design two iconic
buildings -- State Assembly and
High Court -- in Andhra Pradesh
capital Amaravati.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu
Naidu, announcing the decision in
Vijayawada, after a power point
presentation of the designs by
three best architectural firms,
described the occasion as a Historic Day.
Maki and Associates design was
finalised by the jury of six
renowned architects among the
designs submitted by Richard
Rogers (England) and DV Joshi
Architects (India) and Maki and
Associates (Japan).
We wanted to construct one of the

best capital cities in the country,
which is eco-friendly, imbibes
green and blue concept and most
of all, a peoples capital. We were
advised to conduct a competition
among the best to choose the best
and we have got some wonderful
designs, Naidu said. He said, when
they had sought land for the
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capital city, farmers of Amaravati

had given 34,000 acres of land
under land pooling scheme and
Singapore had provided the master plan for the seed capital, capital
city and the capital region.
Now, we have the designs for important buildings in the capital
city. They are good, but we will put
it before public for discussion and
elicit opinions from engineering
colleges, premium institutes like
IITs and integrate the best of the
suggestions, he said.
Stating that there are positive
aspects in the other two designs,
the Chief Minister said those
positive aspects will also be
integrated into the final plans and
services of those two firms will
also be utilised. He said though the
government have decided on
three iconic buildings -- Assembly,
High Court and Secretariat -- they
have not taken any decision on
Secretariat and had only finalised
the other two.
To reflect Andhra culture, we will
also be constructing an iconic
bridge which will be named
Kuchipudi, as it will reflect the
finer nuances of the dance form

and one will be appreciating grace
and beauty of Kuchipudi, he said.
Designing of the bridge has been
entrusted to a Chinese firm.
Naidu said, once the temporary

secretariat works are completed
within the stipulated three
months, they will focus on the construction of the capital city buildings, including iconic buildings,
and sought the cooperation of the
jury of architects, experts and people across the state for the completion of the construction.
Today is historic in another sense,
as today happens to be the birthday and coronation day of Kakatiya
Queen Rani Rudrama Devi, 755
years ago. It was coincidence, that
on the very day we have the designs for the iconic buildings
finalised. Satavahana and Kakatiya
empires passed on a legacy and
today we are starting another
legacy, he said.
Later, the Chief Minister presented
mementos to the architects and
jury members and thanked them
for their cooperation.
VIZAG
the most happening city
Visakha, currently the largest city in

Andhra Pradesh, has bounced back
from the devastation caused by Hud
Hud cyclone. With great
commitment shown by the
Chandrababu Naidu Government in
transforming Vizag into the
commercial and metropolitan capital
of Navya Andhra Pradesh, the city is
poised to be a hub of activity and a
centre of maritime trade and
industry in the not so distant time.
isakhapatnam has become the

cynosure of all having emerged
as the most happening city in
recent times.
For long, Visakhapatnam was merely

one of those major cities in the combined Andhra Pradesh which included
Telangana, trailing behind the Capital
city of Hyderabad and the commercial
hub of Vijayawaya.
However, in the mid 1980s Visakhapatnam, known as Vizag for short, overtook
Vijayawada in a trice with hardly anyone noticing it, to become No. 2 city in
the combined State. This left Vijayawada a long way behind and it will
take Vijayawada a total transformationchanging the name and face having been rechristened as Amaravati, to
catch up with Vizag again. This may,
even going at lightning speed, take
nearly five years or so as building a new
capital is quite a task. Until then, Vizag
will continue to steal the show.
Look at the things happening from the
beginning of this new year 2016! First it
was the Sunrise Andhra Pradesh Investment Meet and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Partnership Summit
2016 in the first half of January which
was a tremendous success in terms of
investment proposals alone which run
up to Rs. 5 lakh crore and more by industrialists from all over the world.
"I Salute the spirit of Vizag"

Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad:
on the resilience shown by
Vizagites to ght back after
cyclone Hudhud devasted the
city in October 2014 and the
discipline showcased by them
in ensuring the success of CII
Partnership Summit and International Fleet Review 2016
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Then there was the International Fleet

Review 2016 in early February on a
much higher plane with about 100 foreign and Indian ships participating in it
to provide a grand spectacle for a full
week.
Shortly after this, the much-awaited
T20 international cricket match was
played between India and Sri Lanka on
February 14. It was a series-decider.
Vizag, already put on the world cricket
map as early as 1988, hosted the event
which was a big success, as it always is,
with people entering the ACA-VDCA
Stadium by afternoon itself for the
short-version night match. And much to
their delight, the Indian team at Vizag
wrapped up the series which it began
"The Government will not

allow a peaceful city like
Visakhapatnam becoming a
hideout for anti-social elements. The city has earned
world-wide acclaim for its
peaceful nature and self-discipline of the people.
Chief Minister
N Chandrababu Naidu
on a losing note at Pune. India which

was bundled out for a lowly 101 at
Pune, skittled out Sri Lanka for its lowest ever total of 82 as if to settle scores,
before recording a big win to clinch the
cup.
And recently, the Union Minister for
Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad laid the
foundation stone of SAMEER (Society
for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research of the Government of India) Centre for
Electromagnetic Environmental Effects
(E 3) and signing of MoU between STPI
and Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority for setting up of STPI InANDHRAPRADESHMAGAZINE.ORG
"I salute the perfection with

which the citizens of Vizag
have demonstrated their discipline and character during IFR
and after Hudhud. I appeal to
them to keep up their spirit."
Union Minister for Urban
Development
M Venkaiah Naidu
cubation facility at Visakhapatnam in

the presence of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Union Minister for
Urban Development, Housing and
Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs M. Venkaiah Naidu and
other ministers.
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In the meanwhile, Visakhapatnam was

ranked among the top five cities in the
country for its cleanliness under the
Swachh Bharat Survekshan programme,
much to the delight of the Vizagites. In
fact, Visakhapatnam got two awards it
ranked fifth in the survey commissioned
for 73 cities by the Ministry of Urban
Development and also emerged among
the top ten movers and the only one
from South India. Vizag improved by 39
ranks in the 2016 survey and scored
1,643 marks out of the possible 2,000.
It is also the only city besides Surat to
have ranked in the top ten in Smart City
Challenge and Swachh Bharat rankings.
According to Greater Visakhapatnam
Municipal Corporation Commissioner
Pravin Kumar, the achievement is a vast
improvement from the survey conducted in 2014 in which Vizag stood at
235 among 476 cities with over one
lakh population. It is the same manpower then and now. The results have
been achieved by motivation, planning,
mobilisation and execution, he pointed
out.
Indeed it is. Anyone who witnessed the
Hudhud devastation in 2014 will agree
with it. Hudhud wreaked havoc as it

hit the city with a speed of over 200
km per hour. Never before did the
city witness such a severe storm and
it lay prostrate Vizags tall trees and
green plants as well as the telephone and electric poles, leaving a
trail of devastation in its wake.
Hudhud defeated
The destruction caused by Hudhud

encompassed large swathes of land
including the city and its neighbourhood besides the coastal mandals of
Vizianagaram. The brunt of the
storm was borne by Vizag, with the
agricultural farms, standing crops,
and several structures in Visakhapatnam district including habitations
in Araku mandal, swept away.
Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu
stood like a rock in the face of adversity. Camping in the city he personally monitored relief, restoration
and rehabilitation for more than a
week to help the city spring back on
its feet. The city that was stripped
off its green cover with lakhs of
trees uprooted by the storm winds,
now presents a new look with the
green cover gradually returning.
Naidu, in 2014 immediately after

Hudhud, gave a call to the people not
to celebrate Deepavali and the citizens followed his advise to the letter
with not a single sound of bursting
crackers heard. Even children, who
are known not to resist the temptation of bursting crackers, obliged
much to the surprise of the parents
which made the Chief Minister comment that `Vizag has defeated Hudhud'.
The GVMC hopes that once the
waste-to-energy plant for which an
MoU was already reached, materialises, the city ranking will further
go up. Also, of the 200 community
toilets planned, 50 will be taken up
immediately to improve the situation further.
Just before the Sunrise AP investment Meet and CII Partnership Summit, the Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated the Second World Congress for Disaster Management at
Andhra University on November 19.
Coming as it was after the Hudhud
cyclone, the four-day event organised in collaboration with Disaster
Management Infrastructure and
Control Society (DMICS), with

Andhra Pradesh government and
various local, national, regional andinternational organisations, and attended by over 1000 delegates from
40 countries and 20 states, discussed at length the Hudhud and
similar situations and adopted the
`Visakhapatnam Declaration.
The Visakhapatnam Declaration
called for a comprehensive action
plan for a disaster-resilient society.
It recommended effective funding by
creating national disaster mitigation
fund for resource implementation of
local plans, for building a platform of
knowledge management/good practices/innovations at local level,
global linkages to undertake cooperative studies among communities
and local governance on evidencing
climate change understanding and
local commitments, and promoting
private sector participation to
strengthen humanitarian commitments. It also mooted setting-up of
an independent experts group with
statutory powers like a state Disaster Management Authority for formulating policies on disaster
management. The declaration listed
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Vizag received a shot in the arm when a memorandum of understanding (MoU)

was signed with the US Trade and development Agency (USTDA) on smart city in
Visakhapatnam on February 12, only three days before it was declared as No. 5 in
Swachh Bharat programme.
out priorities and strategies for disaster management and preventive
measures, which were learnt from
previous experiences of Cyclones
Phailin and Hudhud that struck
Andhra Pradesh and Odisha in a span
of one year.
Novel housing project
Meanwhile, a new housing project is

coming up for the first time in
Andhra Pradesh in the form of cyclone-reistant, pre-fabricated houses
being built for victims of Hudhud
who lost their dwellings. In all, 2,336
houses are planned for construction
at nine different locations. For the
first time in the State, the steel frame
structures with deck sheets for construction is being taken up in
Visakhapatnam. A team comprising
experts from various parts of the
country and institutions has selected
technologies suitable to various districts of the State, an official said. The
technology is also validated by experts from Andhra University College
of Engineering for its suitability. In
the Ground Floor plus Three structures, four floors are erected at a
time using the frames and later, concrete is spread on deck sheets doing
away with the laborious and timeconsuming process of centring with
props and doing one floor after another. The cost of construction
ranges from Rs.1,350 to Rs.1,400 per
square foot. Each housing unit measures 354 sft and the total project cost
is Rs.114 crore.
Vizag received a shot in the arm
when a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed with the US
Trade and development Agency
(USTDA) on smart city in Visakhapatnam on February 12, only three days
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before it was declared as No. 5 in

Swachh Bharat programme. Chief
Minister N.Chandrababu Naidu who
was present when the MoU was
signed between Principal SecretaryMunicipal administration Karikala
Velavan and Country Manager of
USTDA Heather K. OLanigan, said
that the signing of the MoU with
USTDA on smart city is a unique opportunity for the State to work along
with companies of the US.
The Chief Minister invited the US
companies to visit the city as part of
the Smart Cities Infrastructure Mission to India and pointed out that the
Indian market provided plenty of opportunities for investment. There is a
very large market waiting to be
tapped, he noted. He offered an
investor-friendly atmosphere and
administration and promised that
the government would facilitate the
companies willing to work in Vizag.
The USTDA singed the MoU with the
Department of Municipal Administration on funding for drawing up
massive plan for Visakhapatnam
Smart City and a consortium of three
US companies comprising AECOM,
KPMG and IBM was given the task by
the Government.
Poised for new milestones
The Chief Minister observed that

there would be set milestones andtimelines and periodic evaluation of
outcomes of the project while taking
it forward from the conceptual stage
to implementation stage. In the first
phase, the USTDA will be funding to
an extent of 1.4 million US dollars for
drawing up of the master plan for the
Smart City. The companies too have
committed to fund the project and if
necessary, the USTDA may also pro-
vide additional funding.

Railway zone crucial
Knowing the importance of Visakhapatnam, which found place in the

first list of Smart Cities due to its international acclaim, the Chief Minister is also concentrated on this City
of Destiny, which is destined to get
everything. Since the Hudhud cyclone, Chandrababu Naidu has been
visiting the city once in a week on
the average, even while being busy
with the construction of the Capital
city of Amaravati, speaks of volumes
of Vizag.
The latest benefit Vizag is expected
to accrue is the much expected separate railway zone with Visakhapatnam as headquarters. The proposal
is hanging fire for quite some time,
Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu
has sought an expeditious decision
on creation of the new railway zone.
He had called on the Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in New Delhi
recently and submitted a representation seeking early creation of the
new zone and completion of pending
development works in the State.
Union Minister Sujana Chowdary had
also announced that the Centre had
already given in-principle clearance
to the establishment of the railway
zone in Visakhapatnam and a formal
announcement would be made after
the Union Cabinet gave its nod.
The Vizag railwaqy zone will play a
crucial role in the city's progress as it
means that more facilities for passengers and freight traffic besides
the additional infrastructure would
be created in Andhra Pradesh which
will automatically contribute to the
State's development.
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hief minister N Chandrababu

Naidu and networking giant
Cisco executive chairman John T
Chambers jointly launched the
Andhra Pradesh Fibre Grid project in
Viskahapatnam. The project aims to provide world's cheapest internet connection of speed 15 Mbps at Rs 149 per
month along with TV channels and telephone connection, in association with
Cisco.
The main objective of the project is to
provide digital services to all the 1.3
crore households in the state by July end.
Cisco will design and implement a broadband project in Andhra Pradesh, the first
state to implement such a project in India
as part of the centres Digital India initiative.
As part of the efforts to transform the State into 'Digital

Andhra Pradesh', Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu
launched the first statewide broadband project in India.
The project will include putting in place

22,500-km-long broadband network that
will cover two million households. Cisco
signed an agreement to this effect with
the Andhra Pradesh government.
With the fiber optic rollout, Andhra
Pradesh becomes the first Indian state to
bring all its households online. Under the
Digital India initiative launched in July
last year, the union government is aiming
to connect 250,000 gram panchayats with
high speed Internet by 2017.
Andhra Pradesh is a blueprint for a digital state for other states to follow, John T.
Chambers, executive chairman of Cisco
said in a statement.
Households in the state will get broadband connection with speed of 2-20
Mbps while institutions will receive 1-10
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Gbps connectivity by 2018. Households will receive Internet, cable and

phone connection, all on the same
line, for Rs.149. The project is being
implemented using fiber to the home
(FTTH) technology at 2,500 locations
in the State.
The Andhra Pradesh government is
initially investing Rs.333 crore to implement the statewide optic fiber
project, K. Sambasiva Rao, managing
director of Andhra Pradesh State
Fibernet Ltd. said in a presentation.
Andhra Pradesh State Fibernet Ltd., a
government-owned corporation, is
responsible for implementing and
maintaining the fiber grid project in
the State.
The project cost came down to
Rs.333 crore from the initial estimate
of Rs.4,700 crore because the government opted for aerial fiber network, wherein optical fiber lines
were laid over existing infrastructure
such as electric poles to save costs.
The network will be laid in three districts initiallyVisakhapatnam,
Vizianagaram and Srikakulam by
April. By July all 13 districts of the
state would be connected to the fiber
optic grid, said Chandrababu Naidu.
After launching the project, Chandrababu Naidu and John Chambers
interacted with students of a high
school, patients at a primary health
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centre, gram panchayat office at various places in Visakhapatnam district.

The doctors and patients of primary
health centre, Sabbavaram also interacted with the super specialty doctors of King George Hospital for an
advanced medical treatment. On the
occasion, the CM said the open optical fibre cabling was a phase-1 of the
project and the underground cabling
project would be taken up as a
phase-2.
Cisco will also set up an Internet of
Everything (IoE) innovation centre in
Visakhapatnam to enable partners
and start-ups to build prototypes
and solutions around IoE. It will also
invest in an advanced Technology
Centre of Excellence and Research
Lab at the Institute of Digital Technology (IDT) in Tirupati in Andhra
Pradesh. The research lab will focus
on cyber security, smart city and
manufacturing solutions and will
train graduate engineers in advanced
digital technologies.
Cisco and the government of Andhra
Pradesh have also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU),
which includes skills development
for the new digital economy through
expansion of the Networking Academy program, investing in innovative
startups in the state, and Technology
Center of Excellence and Research
Lab in Tirupati focused on manufacturing and cyber security solutions,

sponsoring a research program at
University of Andhra to develop and
customise digital technologies and
solutions for rural Andhra Pradesh,
and expansion of the Golden Mile
project with Cisco.
The company announced plans for
the expansion of Cisco Networking
Academy in 70 colleges to train approximately 10,000 new students in
the state of Andhra Pradesh over
next three years. As part of Ciscos
commitment to accelerating Digital
Andhra Pradesh, the company will
work with the state to integrate
NetAcad courses as part of the
technical education curriculum.
Cisco will sponsor and collaborate
with Andhra University in Visakhapatnam on a 12-month research program to identify and explore the
possibility of developing and customizing digital technologies and solutions for rural Andhra Pradesh.
Cisco will also invest in an advanced
Technology Center of Excellence and
Research Lab in the Institute of Digital Technology (IDT), Tirupati, focused on cyber security, smart city
and manufacturing solutions. The
centre will help train graduate engineers in advanced digital technologies and solutions and equip them
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with skill sets required for the digital

era.
Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said, "My vision for the state is to digitally
empower every citizen, enhance quality of life of citizens, accelerate economic competitiveness, boost local
innovation and become a knowledge
and technology hub of the country.
Digital Andhra Pradesh is a step towards realising that vision. We envision Andhra Pradesh as a role model
for digital transformation for other
states to follow".
" I greatly admire Chief Minister
Chandrababu Naidu for his strong
vision to digitise Andhra Pradesh, and
Cisco is honored to be a partner for
their digital transformation", Chambers commended.
Irving Tan, President, Cisco Asia Pacific & Japan and Dinesh Malkani,
President, Cisco India and SAARC
were also present on the occasion.
Cable Network
The Andhra Pradesh State FiberNet

Limited (APSFL) is setting up a state
wide Optical Cable Network by
pulling 24 core ADSS Fiber Optic Cables for a length of about 23,000 km
aerially. The backend electronic systems are being setup at around 2,449
identified electrical substations to
serve as Point of Presence (PoP),
from which the MSOs/LCOs can get
connected to this network.
The Network Operations Centre
(NOC) has been setup on the Andhra
University campus, Visakhapatnam.
All existing MSOs and LCOs in Andhra
Pradesh have been requested to enrol
themselves with the APSFL to associate with the Company. The registrations can be done online through the
website www.apsfl.in from March 14.
For queries, MSOs/LCOs may email to
ED (Commercial), APSFL at
edc.apsfl@ap.gov.in.
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ENERGY, LOGISTIC
VARSITIES TO START
NEXT YEAR
n efforts to make Andhra Pradeshs road network the best and

well-connected in the country, the state government has undertaken a mammoth task to create a database of all the R&B roads
in the state.
In this regard, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu

flagged off the Multipurpose High Technology Network Survey Vehicles belonging to the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB). These
vehicles, first of its kind in India, will be used for collection of highquality data on asset related parameters on R&B roads in Andhra
Pradesh. The Chief Minister also took a trail run from the CM Camp
Office on the vehicle, while the representatives of the ARRB briefed
on the functioning of the system.
The data collection from Multipurpose High Technology Network
Survey Vehicle includes the collection of physical features like road
carriageway width, shoulder width, road boundaries, location of
road furniture, bridge/culverts, locations etc. It also captures pavement conditions like potholes, cracks, edge breaking, rutting, road
surface undulation etc. All the information is geo-tagged. The data
collection of the entire road network will be completed by August
2016.
This data is collected by using a Hawkeye network survey vehicle fitted with digital laser profilers, digital cameras, GPS system, crack detection equipment and data acquisition system. During the data
collection, one more vehicle fitted with Falling weight Deflectometer
will also be used to collect pavement structural deflection to assess
the strength of the pavement.
The output from the Network Survey Vehicle and data collected will
be used to configure the road database of the whole R&B road network in AP. It can also be accessed by various R&B offices for planning, design, operation and maintenance management.
This comes in line with the formation of the AP Road Management
System under the AP Road Sector Project. AP Road Development Corporation of R&B Department has taken this up this initiative with
World Bank Loan Assistance.
The Road Management System will be operational for various outputs like rolling out plans such as annual road condition reports, annual performance reports, prioritisation of annual maintenance and
road improvement plans together with yearly budget proposals. All
the reports required for decision makers are presented systematically in tabular form, graphical form, map-based and dashboard
form.
The introduction of AP Road Management system in the R&B department helps scientifically, prioritisation of roads for improvements or
maintenance, based on available funds or to allocate budget, needbased.
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Direct Shipping Service Launched Between
KRISHNAPATNAM-CHITTAGONG
new chapter has begun in

the Indo-Bangladesh maritime trade and bilateral cooperation with a direct shipping
service being launched between Krishnapatnam and Chittagong ports
at a ceremony held at the Krishnapatnam port on March 28.
The direct service is expected to
significantly reduce transportation
cost thereby boost the already
promising exports of cotton, steel,
tyres, minerals, and other goods to
Bangladesh. It is said 50 per cent
cotton imported by Bangladesh is
from India.
The event marked the berthing of
the first historic vessel named MV
Harbour-1 which arrived at the Krishnapatnam Port Container Terminal (KPCT) here amid high
expectations among exporters and
importers on future opportunities
for industry and trade between the
two countries.
Dignitaries who graced the occasion included Member of
Bangladesh Parliament Noor-eAlam Chowdhury, Neepa Paribahan
chief executive officer Md. Sirajuddin Rahaman, Krishnapatnam port
chief executive officer Anil Yendluri
and chief operating officer S. Subba
Rao.
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The new direct service would not

just be limited to Chittagong but it
would be stretched up to Pangaon
inland container port located at just
15 km from the capital city Dhaka.
Named the Krishnapatnam-Pangaon weekly direct service, the new
shipping line was welcomed by the
traders on both sides as it would
greatly reduce the transit cost and
also saves a lot on time. Dhakabased Neepa Paribahan, which has
long experience in shipping, operates these direct services.
On the occasion, Chowdhury
termed the event as a historic one
in the Indo-Bangladesh ties considering the fact that this happened
after the agreement was signed between the two countries at the level
of the Prime Ministers.
High potential
Stating that Bangladesh had high

potential with its exports to US and
Europe touching 31.5 billion US $
last year, Chowdhury said that the
new shipping service would prove
to be a win-win situation for both
Bangladesh and India by making effective use of the Krishnapatnam
port. Anil referred to the records
set by the Krishnapatnam port in
ushering in landmark develop-
ments such as the launch of IndoBangla direct shipping service

within eight years of the commencement of the port operations.
The economy of Bangladesh is
strong and they export garments in
a big way. They are importing raw
cotton and tyres from India. We
would like Krishnapatnam to be a
gateway port for them and things
are moving in that direction, he
said.
A report in Benarnews.org said that
previously, goods sent from India
took more than three weeks to
reach Bangladeshs Chittagong or
Mongla ports because shipments
first had to pass through Colombo
or Singapore. I have inaugurated
the service on Tuesday and the first
Bangladesh cargo ship left Chittagong Thursday for Indian ports.
This is a historic day for all of us,
Bangladesh shipping minister
Shajahan Khan told reporters.
The businessmen used to take at
least 25 days to carry goods to and
from India and Bangladesh. Now,
with the coastal shipping service in
place, we can export to and import
from India in only four days. This
reduced time and cost would automatically boost trade between the
two neighbors, Khan said.
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This is a genuinely outcomefocused budget with

unwavering focus on
performance and outcomes
rather than the traditional
input based budget. This is
also a demand driven
budget based on the needs
of the grassroots and the
expectations of the people.
AP BUDGET 2016-17
A NEAT
BALANCE OF DEVELOPMENT
WITH WELFARE
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2016-17
alancing development with

social welfare, Andhra
Pradesh Finance Minister
Yanamala Ramakrishnudu
presented a tax-free budget. The
plan outlay has grown bigger and
the rise in plan outlay comes on the
back of higher allocations to the irrigation and near- doubling of the
outlay for the social sectors. The
government has made liberal allocations to the welfare schemes targeting scheduled casts, scheduled
tribes and backward class communities.
Highlights of Budget 2016-17 presented by Finance Minister Y Ramakrishnudu in the Assembly:
I am presenting this Budget in an
environment of global gloom, national optimism, and local exuberance. I will let the facts and figures
speak for themselves: while the
Global growth has slowed down
from 3.4 per cent in 2014 to 3.1 per
cent in 2015, India has remained the
bright-spot, registering a growth of
7.3 per cent. During the same
period, Andhra Pradesh has
registered a high growth rate of 10.9
per cent. We have accomplished this
in the face of adverse legacies of the
past that continue to haunt the present as well as years of
misgovernance, battered economy,
severe scarcity of financial resources, and inadequate capacity for
effective execution of projects.
Equitable Growth
I am happy to report that our

growth has been fairly equitable
across the sectors, in harmony with
our inclusive development agenda.
Agriculture has registered a growth
of 8.4 per cent, compared to the national average of 1.12 per cent; Services sector has recorded a growth of
11.39 per cent against Indias 9.19
per cent; and Industry sector has
grown at 11.13 per cent, compared
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to the national performance of 7.35

per cent. I am happy to announce
that the per capita income of our
State has crossed Rs one lakh
threshold to reach Rs.1.07 lakhs in
2015.
Leadership-led Development
I would like to echo Shakespeare,
who ordained, Speak of me as I am.
Nothing extenuate, and inform you
that our performance, which is impressive by any standards, has been
contributed not so much by surge in
revenues or generous support from
the central government, but primarily because of the leadership of
Honble Chief Minister, the development vision, comprehensive strategy for economic growth and job
creation, vigorous implementation
of all development programmes /
projects, and above all the improved

efficiency.
Unique Budget
I am happy to inform the august

House that the budget for 2016-17
is unique on several counts. First
and foremost, it's the first e-Budget,
with all budget documents being
made available in easily readable
format on a Tablet that you can
carry anywhere and refer to at anytime. Second, it's a truly decentralised budget; every drawing and
disbursing officer (DDO) in the state
and there are more than 20,800
DDOs in the state - has prepared the
budget proposals for the unit under
his /her control. Third, this is a genuinely outcome-focused budget with
unwavering focus on performance
and outcomes rather than the tradi-
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2016-17
tional input based budget. Fourth,
this is a demand driven budget
based on the needs of the grassroots and the expectations of the
people. Fifth, we have obtained inputs from the public and incorporated them as appropriate.
Central Help Needed
Thus far, the Government of India

has released only Rs 2,303 crores
to bridge the resource gap, leaving
the State with a huge revenue
deficit overhang of Rs 13,897
crores. The State received only Rs
50 crores per district per year over
the past two years for the development of four Rayalaseema and
three north coastal districts. Thus
far, we received Rs 850 crores for
the construction of Amaravati City,
Rs 345 crores for Polavaram Project, and one thousand crores for
the water supply and drainage
projects for Vijayawada and Guntur cities. However, tax incentives
for industrial development of the
state, the grants for construction
of the capital city, reimbursement
of expenditure incurred on
Polavaram project since, grants for
construction of the capital city and
conferring special category status,
all of which are integral components of the AP Reorganisation Act
2014 and the assurances in Parliament, have remained unfulfilled.
Budget 20% Bigger
I propose a Budget for 2016-17 financial year with an estimated expenditure Rs. 1,35,688.99 crores,
an increase of 20 per cent from
2015-16. Accordingly, the outlay
for financing the State Development Plan (Estimated Plan Expenditure) is set to increase by 42.78
per cent from Rs 34,412.48 crores
(2015-16 BE) to Rs 49,134.44
crores, while the Non-plan expenditure is estimated to grow by 10
per cent from Rs 78,636.51 crores
to Rs 86,554.55 crores.
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Water Gets Lions Share
With a view to consolidate the

achievements, accelerate the pace
of implementation of priority irrigation projects, and make the state
drought-proof, I am increasing the
Plan allocation for the Water Resources sector by 57 per cent,
from Rs 4,678.13 crores in 201516 financial year to Rs 7,325.21
crores in 2016-17 financial year. I
have earmarked Rs 3,660 crores
for the Polavaram project, which
being a National Project, will be financed by Government of India. I
am allocating Rs 3,135.25 crores
for accelerated execution and completion of other major irrigation
projects in accordance with the
time schedule.
Industrial Sector
Our efforts have resulted in a significant industrial growth of 11.13

per cent in 2015-16 financial year.
This growth has come from all
components of the Industrial sector, namely 10.82 per cent in Manufacturing, 10.98 per cent in
Mining and Quarrying, 16.69 per
cent in Electricity, Gas and Water
supply, and 9.46 per cent in Construction.
Services Sector
The Services sector in Andhra

Pradesh constitutes 46.6 per cent
of the GSDP and provides direct
and indirect employment to a large
section of the population. In 201516, services sector grew at an appreciable 11.39 per cent over the
previous year. This growth has
been driven through a robust performance of 17.18 per cent in
Communications, 13.70 per cent in
Public Administration, 12.63 per
20 cent in Trade, Hotels & Restaurants, 9.6 per cent in Banking & Insurance, 9.49 per cent in Real
Estate & Ownership of Dwellings,
8.05 per cent in Transport and
14.92 per cent in Other Services
with a slight decline of 2.24 per
cent in Railways. We expect the

overall Services sector to grow at a
relatively higher rate in 2016-17,
at around 15 to 16 per cent.
Industrial Infrastructure
We are developing the Peninsular

Region Industrial Development
Corridor (PRIDe) project in Donakonda spanning 5,779 acres with
an investment potential of Rs.
23,000 Crores and employment
potential of 1.33 lakhs. We are also
taking up Orvakallu Mega Industrial Hub spanning over 27,788
acres with an investment potential
of Rs. 40,000 Crores and employment potential of 70,000.
To boost the industrial progress,
we are grounding the National Investment Manufacturing Zone
(NIMZ) in Prakasam district over
an area of 14,231 acres. This Zone
has the potential for attracting Rs.
43,700 crores in investment and
can create five lakh jobs over the
next ten years. We have also secured in-principal approval for setting up National Investment and
Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) in
Chittoor district in an area of 5,000
hectares. This NIMZ will be an integrated industrial township with
state-of-the-art industrial and social infrastructures. It is estimated
to bring in Rs. 30,000 Crores of investment and create around 3 lakh
jobs over the next decade.
Energy
I wish to inform the House that the

works on Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) and the
Gas Pipeline from Kakinada to
Visakhapatnam will commence
during 2016-17 and city gas 27
distribution in East Godavari, West
Godavari and Krishna districts will
also commence in 2016-17. This
will mark the initial stage of the
Gas Grid in the state.
Housing
Our Government is committed to

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2016-17
This budget will open opportunities for growth, development and empowerment of
the farmers, women, youth, the weaker sections of the societies SCs, STs, BCs, Minorities, - and the poor amongst the Kapu and Brahmin castes, the middle classes
and every citizen of this State and mirrors the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of five
crore people of AP.
providing Housing for All by
2022. This requires a total of 10
lakh houses in urban areas and 30
lakh houses in rural areas to
achieve this vision between 2016
and 2022. In pursuit of this vision,
we have launched NTR Housing
Scheme by increasing the subsidy
six times to Rs. 1,25,000 for general category beneficiaries and
eight times to Rs. 1,75,000 for
Scheduled Caste and Scheduled
Tribe beneficiaries with a total
unit cost of Rs. 2,75,000.
Health Care
Our Governments principal objective is to ensure affordable health

care to the citizens duly ensuing
equitable access to health care. In
this direction, we have strengthened the existing programmes like
NTR Vaidya Seva, which offers
1,044 surgical and medical procedures to the poor people, 108 for
Emergency Health Services, 104
for Fixed Day Mobile Health Services, Family Welfare Programmes
under National Health Mission etc.
In addition, we have launched new
programmes such as e-Aushadi,
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Pariksha, Tele Radiology etc.
SC/ST Welfare
I am allocating Rs 8,724 crores for

the welfare and development of
the Scheduled Castes in 2016-17
financial year, which represents an
increase of 59 per cent over the
2015-16 allocation. Of this, Rs
2,382.27 crores is allocated to the
Social Welfare Department and Rs
6,342 crores is allocated as the
Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan
amongst all major departments for
the purpose of Scheduled Castes
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welfare and development.

I am proposing an allocation of Rs
3,100 crores for the welfare and
development of Scheduled Tribes
in 2016-17, which represents an
increase of 75 per cent over the
2015-16-budget provision.
BC Welfare
In the 2016-17 Budget, I am providing Rs 8,832 crores for the welfare and development of Backward
Castes, which represents an increase of 31.5 per cent.
Minority Welfare
I am providing Rs 710.57 crores

for the welfare and development of
Minorities in 2016-17, which represents in increase of 87.53 per
cent over the 2015-16 allocation of
Rs 378.81 crores.
MGNREGS
I am also proud to inform that our

State is the best performing state
in the country in parameters like
providing 100 days wage employment (3.1 lakh households), percentage of wages paid within 15
days (78%) and in Aadhar seeding
of wage workers (97%). I am earmarking Rs 4,764.71 crores in the
2016-17 BE, an increase of 75 per
cent compared to 2015-16.
Amaravati
For all the capital development operations, I have provided Rs 1,500

crores in the 2016-17 Budget Estimates. This, however, would be the
seed equity of the Government
that would enable CRDA to mobilise additional financial resources required for the capital
construction from the infrastructure financing institutions and the
markets, in addition to the assis-
tance of Government of India
Direct Benet Transfer

(DBT)
I am proud to inform the House

that the 2015-16 National Economic Survey released by the Government of India on February 28,
2016, ranked Andhra Pradesh
ahead of all other States in Biometrically Authenticated Physical Uptake (BAPU) Readiness 54 Index,
with an index of 96.59 per cent,
while the next best state stands at
42.46 per cent. We would like to
take advantage of these achievements to universalise DBT across
all programmes.
Growth Momentum
I am confident that the 2016-17

budget will contribute to the
growth momentum and ensure
sustained double-digit growth for
many years to come. It will open
new vistas of opportunities to all
sections of the society. It will fuel
construction boom, especially
housing for the economically and
socially weaker sections of the society, infrastructure development
across the State and launch the
construction of Amaravati capital
city. It will open opportunities for
growth, development and empowerment of the farmers, women,
youth, the weaker sections of the
societies SCs, STs, BCs, Minorities, - and the poor amongst the
Kapu and Brahmin castes, the middle classes and every citizen of this
State. I am confident that the
2016-17 Budget mirrors the
hopes, dreams, and aspirations of
five crore brothers and sisters of
Andhra Pradesh and I am
confident that all will join this
development bandwagon.
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Our government will

develop the irrigation
channels, check dams
and link channels to
save the crops.
year. The Chief Minister said to save the
crops, the government will develop the
irrigation channels, check dams and link
channels. He also promised to divert the
flood water to the farms of Krishna
Delta. Farmers of the Godavari districts
need not worry as we will ensure ample
water for their crops too. If the drought
situation continues in the upland areas
of the state, the Government will provide them with rain guns to save their
crops, he added.
PATTISEEMA
CoMPLETED IN RECoRD TIME
uoyed by the successful completion of the river-linking

project, the Chief Minister announced that Polavarm too
would be expedited.
Pattiseema Lift Irrigation Scheme (PLIS)
has been completed within the scheduled time of one year. Marking the occasion, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu
addressed a gathering at the project site
and called for conservation of water to
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make Andhra Pradesh a drought-free

state
Intended to draw flood waters of Godavari River and flow it to Krishna at
Prakasam Barrage through Polavaram
Right Main Canal, the project was all set
to draw 80 tmcft water from Godavari
as on March 20.
According to Megha Engineering & Infrastructure Ltd (MEIL) the company

which executed the project, completion
of an irrigation project within the
scheduled time was a record of sorts.
Usually, when the project is delayed, the
estimated cost goes up, thus entailing
an additional expenditure on the government. But in case of PLIS, the government did not have to spend
additional money on the project since it
has been completed on time.
The pump house of the project is also
the largest in Asia, with 24 pumping
units. Though the project constitutes
critical civil works where foundation
levels are far below mean sea level,
MEIL has completed these works with
local technological expertise.
The construction of PLIS began on

March 29 last year and has been completed a day before completion of one
In record time first pump sets commenced on Sept. 18 last year. Now all 24
pump sets have been tested successfully
installed and ready for pumping. Administrative sanction was accorded for
PLIS on January 1 last year for Rs.1,300
crore. The work was entrusted to MEIL
with one year agreement period.
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Features
w Pump house with 24 wells & 2 maintenance bays
w Foundation designed with diaphragm

walls
w Total 24 pumps to discharge 8,500

cusecs of water
w Construction of 220KV double circuit

transmission lines for a length of 30
km
w 2500 tmc of Godavari Water goes into

sea unutilised
w Diversion of 80 tmcft water into Krishna in accordance
w The Polavaram Irrigation Project is

designed in accordance with GWDTA
and has all requisite clearances
w As the Polavaram Irrigation Project

Head works will take about four
years for completion, PLS has been
conceived to protect Krishna delta
from famine
w PLS to lift water from Akhanda Godavari Right Bank, at Pattiseema
w Discharge water into Polavaram Right

Main canal (at KM 1.50)
Megha Engineering & Infrastructure
Limited (MEIL) Chief General Manager
K. Rangarajan claimed that that it was
the first-of-its-kind project not only in
the sub-continent but also the entire
world. Rangarajan said that the project
was unique because of the diaphragm
wall foundations.
This is the first time that foundations
were designed with diaphragm walls in
the irrigation sector. The diaphragm
wall design was used either in metro
rails or in ports, Rangarajan explained.
The design also facilitated working simultaneously on both the substructure
and the superstructure which consisted
of two slabs - one for the pump and the
other for the motor.
The commissioning of all the 24 pump
sets was completed on March 24.
Twenty-four 6,300 horse power motors
and another 24 numbers of 5,300 horse
power with the capacity to lift 8,500
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cusecs were commissioned. The construction of a delivery cistern has also

been completed. The PLIS has the capacity to lift 80 tmcft of water in 110
flood days, he said.
Naidu lauded Megha Engineering and
Infrastructure Limited (MEIL) Managing Director Krishna Reddy and the Irrigation Department engineers for
completing the project in one year after
overcoming the technical glitches.
Polavaram by 2018
The government will complete the

Polavaram project by 2018 just as it
completed Pattiseema in a record time
of one year, the CM said. Pointing out
that the Polavaram project was the
biggest ongoing project in the country,
he said there were several technical
challenges that need to be surmounted
and the best engineers from all over the

world would be consulted for that. One
lakh cubic metres of earthwork was
being done per day but that was not sufficient. At least 1.5 lakh cubic metres of
earthwork has to be done in a day. Godavari is a river which had some of the
biggest floods and if work was not completed as per schedule, an entire year
will be wasted, he said. The completion
of Polavaram would make Andhra
Pradesh one of the best in the country.
East and West Godavari districts would
be able to raise two crops and the entire
Krishna district would be stabilised, he
said. Krishna water could be released to
the Rayalaseema region and water
could be supplied through the
Polavaram Left Main canal to
Visakhapatnam.
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Forging ahead with
eGovernance Initiatives
he new Government of
Andhra Pradesh is implementing citizen centric
eGovernance projects
such as Mee Seva, Mee Kosam,
Mee Bhoomi, Webland, etc. Currently, AP State occupies the first
position in India, in the delivery of
e-Services, as per the e-Taal portal
of Government of India. AP is the
first State to do process reengineering of its procedures and
work flow. Now the Cabinet Meetings of the Council Ministers are
done through eCabinet paperless digitized agenda items. All the
files in Government are moved
electronically through eoffice
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no physical file.
As a forward looking State in extending citizen-centric services effectively and efficiently through
eGovernance, the new State of
Andhra Pradesh envisage to aggressively implement the following good Governance initiatives in
the near future:
ePragati
Andhra Pradesh has always been

at the forefront of implementing
e-Governance, having pioneered
popular projects like CARD, eSeva,
Mee Seva, e-Procurement. To take
the evolution of e-Governance to
the next level, it is felt essential to
have a AP State Enterprise Architecture (APSEA) for providing better services to citizens and
businesses.
e-Pragati is a framework to provide integrated services to citizens

through a free flow of information,
and to usher in an era of good governance, characterized by efficiency, effectiveness, transparency,
and foresight. The vision of e-Pragati program is stated below:
"e-Pragati is a new paradigm in
governance based on a Whole-ofGovernment framework, transcending the departmental
boundaries. It adopts a Missioncentric approach in its design and
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implementation and seeks to realize the Vision of Sunrise AP 2022, by

delivering citizen-centric services in a coordinated, integrated efficient
and equitable manner."
This is the largest e-Governance program approved by any State with a
total outlay of Rs.2398 Crores, out of which the Government Capex
would be to the extent of Rs. 1528 Crores. e-Pragati is a massive program covering 33 departments and 315 agencies and is scheduled to
be implemented / rolled out within a span of (2) years. e-Pragati vision document has been released by the CM on Oct 9th 2015. The RFPs
for (14) packages are planned to be issued by Mar2016.
AP SRDH (Andhra Pradesh State Resident Data Hub)
This initiative is to create a comprehensive a unified Data Hub comprising all data pertaining to citizens including land details, people details, citizen services, welfare programmes, etc., as one entity and
integrates with the geo special mapping, so that the schemes and developmental initiatives reaches citizens in a seamless manner across
the cross sections of the society and to the last mile of the State.
AP GIS Policy
A well-designed and holistic GIS Policy touching all aspects of the creation, maintenance and use of GIS assets is a necessary first step in ensuring that a synergy and harmonization is built into the multiple
efforts of the Government in deriving optimum benefits of the geo-spatial information technologies which include the GIS, GPS and Remote
Sensing Technologies. The proposed AP State GIS Policy is a high-level
and overarching framework, which is aligned with the national efforts
on GIS and envisages laying down the architecture, standards and protocols for developing an Enterprise GIS, building of the appropriate
down-stream procedures, practices and putting in place an institutional mechanism for governance of the whole GIS eco-system.
AP IoT Policy
Andhra Pradesh is the first state to envision the emergence of IoT(Internet of Things) as a new vertical which is a Convergence of IT &
Electronics with the basic sectors of the Society. IoT is the network of
physical objects or things" embedded with electronics, software,
sensors, and network connectivity, which enables these objects to collect and exchange big data, resulting in improved efficiency, accuracy
and economic benefit. An IoT Policy with proactive incentives and facilitations, unique and first of its kind in the country is on anvil.
AP Cyber School of Excellence
The new Government of Andhra Pradesh, in order to take lead in tackling the issues of Cyber Security, proposing to set up Cyber School of
Excellence in Tirupati, in collaboration with Israel with the vision To
be acknowledged as a leader in information assurance providing a secure, resilient and safe cyberspace for Citizens, Business and Government. The Objectives for setting up the Cyber School of Excellence are
(i)To create a secure cyber ecosystem in the State, (ii)To create an assurance & regulatory framework for compliance to global security
standards and best practices,(iii)To promote suitable indigenous security technologies addressing cyber security requirements, and (iv)To
provide support and know how to encourage entities to strengthen
and upgrade information infrastructure for implementing cyber security initiatives and for meeting emergency response arising out of
cyber incidents.
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ANDHRA
PRADESH
HIRES TALENT
FRoM ISB
n a bid to push performance and evaluation, the AP Government has made offers
to students of internationally reputed Indian School of Business (ISB)
The Andhra Pradesh government has turned to

the Indian School of Business (ISB) to hire executives to achieve its goal to be among the top
three states in India by 2022 and the best in the
country by 2029.
The sunrise state, which is also seeking to become a leading investment destination by 2050,
has made 11 offers to students of the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management, or the
Class of 2016, in the ongoing placements season
at the premier management school.
The fresh management experts, who pack prior
experience in the industry, will be part of a
band of executives dubbed the Chief Minister
Fellows, and will be involved in strategic planning and performance management and state
policy programme related research, monitoring
and evaluation.
Chandrababu Naidu, who played a key role in
setting upISB when he was the chief minister of
undivided Andhra Pradesh, has turned to the
same institute of higher learning to attract talent in his new role as the chief minister of
Andhra Pradesh.
The Fellows, who are expected to have an understanding of the increasing complexity of development processes and effective
decision-making for positive transformation,
are being recruited for the creative and innovative perspective that one can expect from youth,
said a statement from ISB.
Some of the issues the CM Fellows will be required to address include raising the quality of
education, improving child nutrition, reducing
maternal mortality and strengthening progress
in rural areas through mitigation of poverty and
creating livelihood opportunities, explains the
job description put out by the State government's recruiters.
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SS
Rajamouli's "Bahubali:
The Beginning)", starring Prabhas and Rana
Daggubati, has won the Best Feature Film at the 63rd National Film
Awards (NFA).
Bahubali made history by becoming
the first Telugu movie ever to win
the honour. The movie also bagged
the Best Special Effects award.
Announcing the awards, the Twitter
page of Ministry of Broadcasting
said: "#NFA- Best Feature Film:
Bahubali, An imaginative film &
monumental by its production values &cinematic brilliance. [sic]"
"Bahubali: The Beginning" was
awarded the Golden Lotus Award
(Swarna Kamal), a certificate and
cash prize of Rs 2.5 lakh. "Bahubali:
The Beginning" has already won
several awards at the South Filmfare Awards, IIFA Utsavam and
other such events. It has also been
screened at the some International
film festivals and won accolades.
Many celebs and fans congratulated
the Bahubali team on its most recent win. Here are some of their
Twitter comments:
first telugu film to win
national awarD
for Best film
Actor-lmmaker Satish Kaushik who headed the

jury for the 63rd National awards admits it was
tough deciding the Best Director between Sanjay
Leela Bhansali and S.S Rajamouli.
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Allari Naresh: #Baahubali makes us

proud again by winning the National award for Best Film. Congrats
@ssrajamouli sir & team!
Varun Sandesh: A Bigg Bigg Congratulations to the team of
#Baahubali for being declared the
BestFilm at the #NationalAwards :-)
#WellDeserved #ProudMoment
Sai Dharam Tej: A real proud moment for all Telugu people.Congratulations to team Bahubali and team
kanche. @IAmVarunTej love you ra
Tamannaah Bhatia: National award
for best film @BaahubaliMovie congratulations to our lovely team
@ssrajamouli @Shobu_ @RanaDaggubati #Prabhas #Anushka
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Harish Shankar S: Congrats to Entire

team of ... Baahubali. Thanks alot @ssrajamouli sir for making us Proud :-)
Krish Jagarlamudi: THIS IS AWESOME.
AWESOME. AWESOME. CONGRATULATIONS @ssrajamouli @Shobu_ #Prasad.
Gopi Mohan: Congrats to @ssrajamouli
@Shobu_ Baahubali Team 1st time a
Telugu movie won the #NationalAward
in Best Film category
Bahubali has broken barriers in Indian
Cinema, said Rana Daggubati, expressing his happiness over the national
award to the film. The national award
citing Bahubali as the best film is the
ultimate recognition for a regional language film. We are proud at the honour
bestowed on us and happy at the recognition and all I can say is that it is very,
very gratifying, said producer Shobu
Yarlagadda.
Actor-filmmaker Satish Kaushik who
headed the jury for the 63rd National
awards says this was one of the best
years in the life of Indian cinema so far.
Satish admits it was tough deciding the
Best Director between Sanjay Leela
Bhansali and S.S Rajamouli. "It was a
tough call. Bahubali and Bajirao Mastani
were neck to neck. But we felt Bhansali
had an edge. His end-product was superior to Rajamouli's film. Bahubali is no
doubt an epic achievement. It is the first
Indian film to put our cinema on a par
with Hollywood. But we felt in terms of
detailing, drawing out etched performances from each actor and the sheer
breadth of the images and emotions Bajirao Mastani had an edge."
Kanche, Best Film in Telugu
Director Krish aka Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi's "Kanche," starring Varun Tej

and Pragya Jaiswal, has bagged the National Award in the Best Feature Film in
Telugu category. "Kanche" is a romance
drama film set against the backdrop of
World War II.
Many celebs from the Telugu film
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Many celebs from the Telugu lm industry are

happy with the jury of National Film Awards
for honour the team of "Kanche."
industry are happy with the jury of National Film Awards for honour the team
of "Kanche." They took to Twitter to
congratulate the team. Here are their
comments:
Junior NTR: And a big thumbs up to
KANCHE for winning the national award

for the best Telugu film.
Sai Dharam Tej: A real proud moment
for all Telugu people.Congratulations to
team Bahubali and team kanche.
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The setting up of a
new oce in central
London that will act
as a nodal point to
attract investment
for Amaravati was
among several initiatives taken by the
Chief Minister during
his visit to London.
ing's College Hospital, one

of the UK's largest teaching
hospitals, will soon set up a
1,000-bed world-class medical facility in Andhra Pradesh's new
capital Amaravati, Chief Minister
Chandrababu Naidu has announced
during his three-day visit to London.
"The King's College Hospital has
agreed to set up a 1,000-bed hospital
in Amaravati immediately and make
it their headquarters as they plan to
set up 11 hospitals in different parts
of India," Naidu said.
Kings college
hospital
medical facility in Amaravati
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"They will manufacture equipment

necessary for the hospitals in India itself. Not only they want to set up a
world-class hospital but promote
Health Tourism in India. The foundation for the hospital in Amaravati will
be laid in the first week of June," he
said.
King's College Hospital is one of the
UK's largest and busiest teaching hospitals with specialised work in liver
diseases and transplantation, neurosciences, haemato-oncology and
foetal medicine.
A 'Health City' of 6387.67 acres has
been planned in the capital and land
has been reserved throughout the
city for healthcare infrastructure. A
medical academy and research centres are planned in the capital, proAPRIL 2016
Consulting rm Price water house Coopers (PWC) prepared an investment

strategy for the companies seeking to invest in Amaravati. In the 43-page report
titled Prospectus for AP, PWC listed about 20 viable projects in AP including
capital Amaravati, the outer ring road and Vizag-Chennai growth corridor.
The report was unveiled during Naidus visit to London.
viding access to workforce.
"Leading institutions like AIIMS and the
Indo-UK Institute of Health have already
shown interest in setting up hospitals in
the capital," he said.
The Chief Minister said his government
has set up an office for Amaravati in
London.
"Vijay Goel, partner Singania & Co, a
leading solicitor firm here, has offered to set up the office free of cost," he
said. The office will coordinate with investors and help them invest in Amaravati. The Chief Minister also had a
separate meeting with Non-Resident
Telugus in the UK and they offered to
adopt villages in Andhra Pradesh for
speedy development.
Chief Minister Naidu attended a meeting with London Stock Exchange Group
in Canary Wharf. LSE CEO Nikhil Rathi
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informed Naidu that more than 500

companies with a total market capitalisation of $ 2 trillion were listed on the
LSE. Rathi offered to work with the
State government to help raise funds for
Amaravati.
The Chief Minister and his team participated in a presentation on UK smart
city expertise. Greater London Authority, RICS, Aecom, Benoy, Arup, Mott MacDonald, Mace, Gleeds, Catapult,
StadivArena, Vodafone, Rolls - Royce,
Herbert Smith Freehills, JCB, UK Export
Finance, and ARM are part of the presentation.
Earlier, he paid tributes at Mahatma
Gandhi statue at Parliament Square.
He also attended a meeting with investors Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors (RICS). The visiting Andhra
team promoted the new capital city
with presentation.
The British Museums special gallery
dedicated to the museums treasure
trove of Buddhist architecture and
sculpture from the ancient site of Amaravati -- floored the Chief Minister.
Inspired by the artefacts, the CM said he
will seek advice, help and best practices on reviving the present day museum in Amaravati and in featuring the
significance of the British Museum collection in the new capital.
Naidu said that he received a positive
response to his invitation to the representatives of 20 companies to be part of
the smart city concept for Amaravatis
development. Included in this group of
companies and organisations were the
Greater London Authority, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, Vodafone, and Rolls Royce.
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CENTRAL TEAM TO STUDY
LED LIGHTING PROGRAMME IN STATE
he Central government dispatched a team of officials to

Andhra Pradesh to study the
successful implementation of
the replacement of conventional bulbs
with energy efficient LED lights.
The team led by Energy Efficiency

Services Limited managing director
Saurabh Kumar is expected to hold
discussions with the State Energy Department officials on the measures
taken to ensure achievement of targets set for the replacement of traditional lights within the stipulated
timeframe. The teams visit comes in
the backdrop of the State receiving national-level awards in five categories
of energy conservation.
The committee met the CM to apprise
him about the latest trends in energy
efficiency measures adopted across
the country. The team held deliberations on the status of progress of the
distribution of 1.83 crore LED bulbs
targeted by the energy utilities and
the request made by the State government for sanction of another 45 lakh
more bulbs to ensure 100 per cent
coverage.
Energy conservation
In addition, the team is expected to review the third party audit of the energy conservation achieved in four
districts Srikakulam, West Godavari,
Guntur and Anantapur where LED
bulbs were distributed in the first
phase as also the energy savings
achieved in the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation where
conventional streetlights had been replaced by the LED ones.
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The team will hold discussions about

the plans to launch pilot project of distribution of energy efficient fans at Rs.
955 each against the market price of
Rs. 1,500.
Govt of India has taken up LED lighting programme with a target to replace 77 Crore conventional bulbs in
the domestic sector and another 3.5
Crore ordinary street lights with
LEDs in the country by 2018-19. The
gigantic program of Govt. of India is
expected to result in substantial reduction of 21,500 MW electricity demand worth of Rs.40,000 Crores
energy savings per annum.
Impressed with the success story of
Andhra Pradesh in implementing LED
scheme and other energy efficiency
programmes, Govt of India has de-
cided to show case the APs LED Implementation Model to other states
so that they can emulate it in their respective states.
Meanwhile, in yet another major development on the Energy Efficiency
(EE) front, the Andhra Pradesh government has in principle proposed to
distribute five more LED Bulbs to each
SC/ST/BC families for improving their
living standards and save considerable amounts in their electricity bills.
The five bulbs are proposed to be
made available @ Rs 10 each..
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AP witnesses 30% growth in
TOURIST FOOTFALLS
preferred tourist destination, this data comes to us as a great
encouragement, Andhra Pradesh Principal Secretary,
Tourism and Culture, Neerabh Kumar Prasad said.
Under the leadership of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu
and with a focused strategy in place, we are hopeful of this
growth momentum to be replicated year after year going forward. We will continue to invest and focus to develop tourism
in the state of global standard, Prasad said.
ndhra Pradesh, a land of unique temples, pristine

beaches, hill stations and scenic backwaters, saw 30
per cent growth in tourist footfalls by registering
1,218.3 lakh travellers in 2015.
Footfalls in the state increased to 1218.3 lakh last year
against 933 lakh in 2014, registering a growth of 30 per cent,
according to data provided by Andhra Pradesh government.
In our endeavour to make Andhra Pradesh as Indias most
Anantapur district which houses the famous Puttaparthi and

Lord Veerbhadra temple at Lepakshi, became the most visited
destination by foreign tourists with a footfall of 1.37 lakh foreigners.
Among international tourist arrivals, 2.37 lakh tourists visited
the state during 2015 against 66,333 in 2014.
Majority of the foreign tourists were from the South East
Asian countries like Singapore, Malaysia and the Middle East,
among others.
AP Secretariat to function from Amaravati from June 15
he Andhra Pradesh Government is all set to commence

shifting of the first batch of its employees to the new
capital region by June 15.
Municipal Administration Minister P. Narayana and Chief Secretary S.P. Tucker, who held a meeting with the employees associations representatives at the Secretariat, explained to
them that by June 15 the interim Secretariat would be ready
with six lakh sft to accommodate 4,000 employees.
The interim Secretariat at Velagapudi will have six blocks and,
at present, G plus-one floor construction was approved. However Narayana said that it was now decided to construct G
plus-three floors for all the blocks with a total built-up area of
12 lakh sft.
By July 31 another floor would be ready to accommodate
3,000 more employees and by August 31, yet another floor
would be completed when another 3,000 employees would be
shifted.
In the first phase, a majority of Secretariat employees would
shift followed by employees of Head of Departments in the
second phase, and the remaining staff in the third phase. Of
the six blocks, one would be for the Chief Ministers Office and
another for legislature buildings Assembly and Council.
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The purpose of the meeting was to seek the views of the employees on whether they would be willing to shift in phases or
take temporary buildings for rent to shift all at once by June
15, sources said.
The employees, giving their consent to move in phases, however, said their demands for five-day week, 30 per cent HRA,
displacement allowance for one year, and amendment to
Presidential Order on local status of their children be considered by the government before shifting the administration.
The demands of the employees will be conveyed to the Chief
Minister and the next meeting would be held on March 28.
Sources said that some skeletal staff would be left in the Secretariat at the common capital and it would not exceed 20 per
cent.
The new premises will also have amenities and supporting infrastructure for the convenience of employees such as
crches, food courts, petrol bunks, etc., and internal roads
from Vijayawada side.
The meeting also discussed the interiors and ergonomically
designed seating arrangements in the centrally air-conditioned blocks.
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START AP FEST DRAWS
Big response
he two-day StartAP Fest - a networking

event which brought around 1,200
youngsters, mostly students and entrepreneurs, to a common platform
ended with several venture capital and
angel investors evincing keenness to
fund start-ups, reported The Hindu.
The second edition of the fest in vizag after the
first one hosted at Vijayawada last year, was
sponsored by Innovation Society of AP
Government and OMICS International.
During interactions with the entrepreneurs and
students planning to explore entrepreneurship
from across the State, several investors from the
United States and Europe said they were looking
for the right opportunity to put their money.
There is bright scope to develop a startup
ecosystem in Visakhapatnam. There should be a
clear roadmap to integrate everything, including
making use of global mentorship, to build the
right ecosystem, Atal Malviya, lead founder of
Spark10 and Bradford, said.
The London- based venture capitalist said they
had funded several startups in Hyderabad. He
said the startups in the city lacked proper men-
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torship due to which they were struggling for viability.

Building a Silicon Valley or London-type ecosystem would be a long-drawn process, he stated.
The investors also interacted with the startup
promoters. Malaviya mentioned about GVS Educational Lab, a city-based startup that developed
a portable chemical lab, and said only innovation,
passion, and hard work would propel the startups on the path of success.
Founder & CEO of US-based 3 Line (accelerator
for emerging markets) Krishna Kunapalli said
they were looking for opportunities after the
word spread in the United States that India was
turning into a happening place for startups.
He said: The American investors are very particular about validation of ideas and genuine
patenting (intellectual property rights).
The response from the investors to the citybased startups is good. Now, we have to fine-tune
our products/services as per their requirement,
CEO of Startup Moksha T. Vasudeva Rao, said. Director of Startups, Microsoft Ventures, Naveen
Asrani, said during a panel discussion that good
entrepreneurs would always get a good start.
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chief ministers
social network
CM Chandrababu Naidu is an active social media

user. Many of you have been actively following
his activities with admiration. Here are a few
snapshots from his Twitter account and those
on him.
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AMAZING ANDHRA PRADESH
Undavalli
Rock-Cut Caves
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ndavalli caves, located in the

village of Undavalli in Tadepalli Mandal in Guntur District, near the southern bank
of Krishna river, is finest destination to
the tourists of variant disciplines. Located 6 km south west from Vijayawada, 22 km north west of Guntur
city, it resembles an forsaken fort to a
distant viewer. But, actually, whole gigantic structure is a cut in monolithic
sandstone cliff. The four floors high
rock-cut temple of 29 meters wide facade, with numerous sculptures and
murals, is an amazing accomplishment
of aesthetic prowess of ancient rulers
of Andhras.
According to historians, the caves
were associated with Vishnukundina
kings - dominant dynasty ruling over
considerable part of contemporary
India during 420 - 620 AD. With the
shifts in the spiritual loyalties of the
Vishnukundina kings from Buddhism
to Hinduism, the Undavalli Caves obviously preserves the artwork of different schools of thought. Planning and
style of sculptures in the first floor
shows that it was a Buddhist
monastery - vihara. The second floor
contains the most amazing sculpture
in this temple- the reclining figure
resting in the shadow of a many
headed snake carved from a single
rock mass - a huge, 20- feet long statue
of Anantapadmanabha Swami (Lord
Vishnu). The facade of the third floor
is adorned with numerous sculptures,
including depictions of lions and elephants.
The rock-cut architecture of Undavalli
caves had been studied thoroughly beyond the beliefs on cave- sanctities.
Accordingly, it is argued that Undavalli
Cave in its planning belongs to the earliest examples of Gupta architecture
although several details in the second
floor show the influence of Chalukyan
architecture.
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attractions:
v The spiritualists, anthropologists, historians, iconographers,
sculptors, as well as the lovers of nature find their own experience

of detoxification at these caves of rock-cut architecture.
v The caves are surrounded by the green countryside. There opens
beautiful view through these ancient sculptures towards other
green hills and stands of palms below.
v Vijayawada-Guntur-Tenali-Mangalagiri Urban Development Authority (VGTMUDA) is planning to promote eco-tourism at Undavalli caves. As part of it, a park would be developed atop the hill
that houses the Undavalli caves. UDA is also to take up a ropeway
project shortly from Bhavani Island to Undavalli caves.
v The impressive Prakasam Barrage, which is 1223.5 mt long across
the river Krishna has created a beautiful reservoir lake. Boating is
also another facility at Bhavani Island resorts.
how to reach:
Being one of the major cities of Andhra Pradesh and also being
one of the biggest railway junctions of India, Vijayawada has many
a source of connectivity through road, rail and also airways. It is
well connected to most major cities of the country like Mumbai,
Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Patna,
Bhubaneswar and Tirupati. Undavalli Caves are very proximate to
the city and thus, very accessible as being part of the city.
accommodation
Haritha Berm Park, Vijayawada
Beautiful with hills enveloping it, Haritha Berm Park is to provide

comfortable accommodation to pilgrims and tourists. AP Tourism
has opened this modern hotel, with excellent spacious deluxe
rooms, decorated suites a function hall and attached Pongali
restaurant.
Rooms could be booked online, or through phone booking: +91
9951 96 8100
- Naresh Nunna
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HAPPENING AP
Rs. 6,640 cr. outlay for BC sub-plan
An allocation of Rs. 6,640 crore was made for the backward class sub-plan in the State budget this year, Minister for BC Welfare and Excise Kollu Ravindra said.
Ravindra told the media that Rs. 8,832 crore was being
spent under the BC sub-plan through 21 departments
last year and through 33 departments this year. The
government was initiating measures to waive loans
worth Rs. 2 crore for 1,200 handloom weavers in
Kurnool district.
1,500 more buses to join RTC eet
State Transport Minister Sidda Raghava Rao said 1,500

new buses would be added to the APSRTCs eet this
year to make the State-owned RTC the most preferred
mode of transport for the commuters. Raghava Rao said
this was in addition to 1,000 new buses put into service
last year. In phases, all the old buses would be replaced.
The Government is on the job of creating airport-like
ambience in all the bus stations and put to commercial
use RTCs assets by constructing shopping malls and
theatres to augment the its revenue', he said. A new
mobile app would be introduced soon to help the passengers track their buses with the help of smart phones.
Aqua Culture gets push in Budget
Minister for Agriculture, Horticulture and Fisheries Prattipati Pulla Rao said that State governments agreement
with World Economic Forum for marketing 25 agriculture varieties from the country will benet 10,000
farmer produce organisations from this year. While inaugurating Aqua Biz India-2016 at Sports Stadium in
Kakinada, he said that each group of FPO would consist
of 1,000 farmers and a total of 10 lakh farmers of these
organisations would adopt best practices for quality
production. With regard to aqua culture, the Minister
said that top priority was given to this sector as the
growth rate was 32 per cent, whereas the agriculture
growth rate was at minus 7 per cent.
CM condoles Anand Gajapathi Raju
Scion of Vizianagaram royal family, former State Minister and MP Pusapati Anand Gajapathi Raju passed away
in Vizag on March 26. He was 65 and is survived by wife
and a daughter. Union Civil Aviation Minster Ashok Gajapathi Raju is his younger brother. Anand was elder son
of Raja Saheb of Vizianagaram P.V.G. Raju. He was Minister in N.T. Rama Rao's cabinets twice and was elected
from Bobbili Parliamentary constituency twice, one on
Congress ticket and later on Telugu Desam ticket.
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Araku apples likely to hit market in two

years
Araku apples are most likely to hit the market in two

years. Senior scientists from the Centre for Cellular and
Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, expressed with condence after they examined the apple plants on the
premises of the Regional Agriculture Research Station of
Acharya N.G. Ranga Agriculture University at Chintapalli
in Visakha Agency. As an experiment, the CCMB planted
100 apple plants at RARS and 10 each at Araku, GK
Vedhi and Lammasingi as these areas located high on
the Eastern Ghats. The CCMB has taken up apple cultivation on an experimental basis in non-traditional areas
under a CSIR programme and has provided the plant varieties that suit such areas to the Visakha Agency.
Approval for diversion of forest land to capital
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate

Change (MoEFC) has given in-principle approval for diversion of 19,256.8 hectares of forest land for the development of the capital city of Amaravati in Krishna and
Guntur districts of Andhra Pradesh. The government
has taken a policy decision to allow diversion of forest
land for creation of new State capital of a newly-carved
out State, Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate
Change Prakash Javadekar told the Lok Sabha. In September, the State government submitted a proposal to
the MoEFC, seeking prior approval of the Central government for diversion of 19,256.8 hectares of forest
land under the Forest (Conservati0n) Act 1980.
Loan Disbursal for Kapus soon
A tatal of 3.48 lakh Kapus have applied for loan to the

Kapu Corporation and it would be disbursed in all the
districts soon, Kapu Welfare and Development Corporation Chairman Ch. Ramanujaya said. Loans were disbursed to 32,000 beneciaries at Eluru and 15,000
beneciaries in Anantapur. The Chairman said that the
Chief Minister made a budgetary allocation of Rs. 8,400
crore for BC welfare as against Rs.3,200 crore allocated
earlier. The government made a budgetary allocation of
Rs.1,000 crore to the Kapu Corporation this year.
Seventh INRSS satellite to be launched by

April-end
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch the last one in the series of the seven
navigation satellites by last week of April. ISRO Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar said the seven satellite constellation is unique in that they continuously beam down
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data that could be read even by smart phones. The system was designed to cover a region of about 1,500 km
on all sides of the border.
TTD call centre to be strengthened
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) is all set to

improve its call centre, one of the major public interaction points, with advanced technology in a bid to make
it more caller-friendly. The call centre receives an average of 5,000 calls every day, right from queries on various sevas performed at the temple to complaints about
malfunctioning systems or errant sta etc. Calls are
made not only from people across the state and various
parts of the country, but also from abroad. Apart from
instructing the ocials to train the call centre sta in
several languages to handle calls from other states, he
also instructed them to design a chart on Frequently
Asked Queries (FAQs), instructed Executive Ocer D.
Sambasiva Rao at a review meeting.
Socio-economic survey of Brahmins soon
The government will soon undertake a survey on Brahmana community so as to assess their socio-economic
status and design development schemes for them. Endowments Minister P. Manikyala Rao said this in the Assembly while answering a question by member Kona
Raghupathi during question hour. The survey report will
be out in three months. Rao informed that Rs.60 crore
had been allocated to the AP Brahmin Welfare Corporation in 2014-15 and 2015-16, which, together with a release of Rs.20 crore as grant to the AP Brahmin
Cooperative Credit Society, was expected to be spent by
the end of the nancial year.
Widening sex ratio in Srikakulam
Srikakulam district Collector P Lakshmi Narasimham has

expressed concern over the widening sex ratio in the
district despite eorts to create awareness over the importance of the girl child. Stating that the male-female
ratio was 1000: 954 in the district, he said that it had to
be corrected by encouraging birth of the girl child in future. He was speaking at a function organised in Bapuji
Kalamandir on the occasion of International Womens
Day. A change in the attitude of people was the need of
the hour so that there would not be any imbalances in
the male-female population in future, he said.
Govt. to enhance sports budget
The State government has decided to enhance budgetary allocation for developing sports infrastructure in all
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the districts across the State. The decision comes in the

light of Andhra Pradesh being selected to host the
National Games of 2018-19. Labour Minister K. Atchan
Naidu, who replied to a query on the issue during the
question hour in the Assembly, said the State
government was expected to make allocation of close to
Rs. 1,000 crore for developing stadiums in dierent
districts of the State. Of this, close to Rs. 150 crore
would be spent on procurement of the necessary
equipment in the stadiums.
Fortication of Prakasam Barrage begins
The State government had earmarked Rs. 24 crore from

the Krishna Delta Modernisation Project funds for
strengthening the Prakasam Barrage. The barrage has
an ayacut of over 13 lakh acres stretching across West
Godavari, Krishna, Guntur, and Prakasam districts. The
foundation of the barrage, the construction of which
was begun in 1954 and completed in 1957, had to be
bolstered and fortied in a big way. The total quantity of
concrete used for the oors and the aprons of the barrage is 31 lakh cubic feet. As many as 900 wells were
sunk for the construction of the piers.
Mythological murals to greet devotees

in Tirupati
Devotees travelling through the major approach roads

into the temple city of Tirupati will soon be greeted by
colourful mythological murals! The Municipal Corporation of Tirupati (MCT), as a part of the beautication
drive, has embarked upon a new project to turn the
blank city walls into beautiful paintings, depicting
scenes from Hindu mythology. The cost of entire project
is estimated in between Rs. 3 and Rs. 5 crore and is
expected to be completed by six months. MCT ocials
have identied six approach roads for this project.
HPCL, GAIL shortlist three sites in AP for 15MT

renery
Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) and GAILBSE -0.41

% India Ltd have shortlisted three sites in Andhra
Pradesh for setting up a 15 million tons per annum
renery, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said. "Site
selection study for 3 sites, namely, Nakkapalli cluster
near Visakhapatnam, Kakinada SEZ in East Godavari
district and at Machilipatnam have been completed.
HPCL and GAIL have carried out a prefeasibility cum
conguration study for 15 million tons integrated
renery cum petrochemical complex and also a
standalone petrochemical complex.
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gannavaram airport
in expansion moDe
Passenger Movement Now
6,74,200
Aircraft Movements Now
10,550
Projected Growth by 2018-19
Projected Growth by 2018-19
Soon to be Operational
Currently Operated Flights

Runway Earlier
Runway Present
:
:
19,49,000
20,690
Airbus 319, 320

Airbus 321
1745 metres
2,286 metres
New International Terminal To be in four phases

Measures 1,50,270 square metres
Under Progress
Present Spread of Airport
: New Domestic Terminal

spanning 13,000 square metres
: 537 acres
Land extent to be Acquired : 700 acres

New Facilities
Present Connectivity to
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: Instrument Landing System for

night landing
: Bangaluru, Chennai,
Hyderabad, New Delhi and
Visakhapatnam
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HERE & EVERYWHERE...
he Chief Minister spent most the time in March in Hyderabad for the Budget Session of the
Assembly. However, he took time out to participate in other programmes including a whirlwind
tour to London to attract investments for Amaravati.
Pic 1: CM paying tributes to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Parliamenet Square during the visit to London.
Pic 2 Chief Minister monitoring the pace of works for building the interim Secretarait Complex at Velagapudi in
the upcoming capital Amaravati.
Pic 3: Hindupur MLA Balakrishna interacting with Ministers Partiala Sunitha and Palle Raghunatha Reddy at the
Assembly premises during the Budget session.
Pic 4: CM lighting the lamp at the inaguation of the Judicial Ocer Conference held in Hyderabad. Supreme
Court Judges Justice A R Dave and Justice Dipak Misra are also seen.
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AMARAVATI : TAKING A SHAPE

High Court Building

River Bund Road

View of Government Buildings from Krishna River

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Andhra Pradesh hires

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he digital transformation of Andhra Pradesh has begun. The

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capital city, farmers of Amaravati

finer nuances of the dance form

Naidu said, once the temporary

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isakhapatnam has become the

For long, Visakhapatnam was merely

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on a losing note at Pune. India which

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cubation facility at Visakhapatnam in

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with it. Hudhud wreaked havoc as it

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Novel housing project

Meanwhile, a new housing project is

before it was declared as No. 5 in

Poised for new milestones

The Chief Minister observed that

vide additional funding.

Knowing the importance of Visakhapatnam, which found place in the

hief minister N Chandrababu

As part of the efforts to transform the State into 'Digital

The project will include putting in place

Gbps connectivity by 2018. Households will receive Internet, cable and

centre, gram panchayat office at various places in Visakhapatnam district.

Lab in Tirupati focused on manufacturing and cyber security solutions,

with skill sets required for the digital

The Andhra Pradesh State FiberNet

n efforts to make Andhra Pradeshs road network the best and

In this regard, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu

Direct Shipping Service Launched Between

new chapter has begun in

The new direct service would not

Stating that Bangladesh had high

ments such as the launch of IndoBangla direct shipping service

This is a genuinely outcomefocused budget with

alancing development with

I am happy to report that our

to the national performance of 7.35

projects, and above all the improved