Maiden NDRF unit to be stationed in Andhra Pradesh

PTI | 12:02 PM,Feb 16,2011 Hyderabad, Feb 16 (PTI) A permanent National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) battalion, the first-ever to be set up in cyclone-prone Andhra Pradesh, to deal with emergency situations, is coming up in Guntur district. The proposed NDRF unit comprising over 1,000 personnel will be equipped with modern gadgets and would be stationed on a 50-acre land in Mangalagiri town located between Vijayawada and Guntur, they said. "The state government had issued orders for handing over 50-acre land for setting up the permanent NDRF battalion in Mangalagiri town and the Revenue department transferred the land in the name of NDRF last week," a senior official of the State Disaster Management Department told PTI. The official said, the infrastructure work (for buildings) for the first-ever NDRF unit was likely to be completed in one year time and more than 1,000 personnel comprising doctors, para-medical staff, swimmers and such professionals would be permanently stationed here. The need for an exclusive NDRF unit for Andhra Pradesh was felt as coastal districts of the state are vulnerable to cylones and floods, and whenever such disaster and any other natural calamity strikes, the forces from this proposed unit can be immediately deployed for rescue and relief operations. "Till now, whenever cyclones or floods occurred in the coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh, the NDRF forces from Chennai and Bhubaneshwar were called in for dealing with the situation," he said and elaborated that once the NDRF unit starts functioning in AP, the personnel who would have local knowledge on the areas could be deployed in the shortest time. "During any emergency situation, time plays a crucial role for the forces and in case of any natural calamity in the future the personnel from Mangalagiri NDRF unit can be shifted to coastal districts quickly," the official added.

Many super speciality Hospitals coming up in Vijayawada

(courtecy: HINDU)
G.V.Ramana Rao

City set to become the biggest destination for medicare in coastal Andhra

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The Kamineni Hospitals is constructing a 200-bed hospital
The city already has hospitals being run by the Manipal group

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VIJAYAWADA: Even as the controversy over whether or not a Government super speciality is going to come up in the city continues to rage, about ten 100-bedded super-speciality hospitals are coming up here in the next year. Six of these hospitals are already under construction. On completion of these hospitals Vijayawada will become the biggest destination for medicare in Coastal Andhra.
The Kamineni Hospitals, a chain of super special hospitals that is running four hospitals having a cumulative bed-strength of 1,600 in Hyderabad is constructing a 200-bedded hospital on the 100-feet road that connects Srichaitanya College main campus with the New Autonagar in Kanuru village limits.
Kamineni hospitals has a clear focus on cardiology, oncology, minimal access surgery, neurology, nephrology, orthopedics and trauma.
The group claims that it was providing medical tourism services to patients from Uzbekistan, Nigeria, Srilanka, Bangladesh and Malaysia. The founders of Kamineni Group hail from Madduru village in Krishna district.
The former CMD of Saumya Apollo and the man who brought the concept of big hospitals to the city, Chinthamaneni Suresh, is building yet another big hospital in Nidamanuru. Boppana Medicare Limited is constructing a 200-bed hospital in Poranki. CMD of Dr. Ramesh Cardiac and Multispeciality Hospital, P.Ramesh Babu, is building a second hospital in the heart of the city near the Indira Gandhi Municipal Stadium in the premises of his old hospital.
NRI support
A group with support from some non-resident Indians are constructing a hospital on Ring Road near Vinayak Theatre.
Anila Cancer Care head and consulting oncologist for Andhra Hospitals M. Subba Rao is constructing a 100-bedded cancer hospital in Kanuru area right besides the existing Nagarjuna Hospital. Suraksha Neuro Hospital head V.B.Chowdary is constructing a 100-bedded hospital in Suryaraopet.
The M. J. Naidu Joint Replacement Centre near Pushpa Hotel Centre is building an extension block with the capacity to hold 100 beds right being the existing hospital. Machilipatnam based physician Parthasarati is building a 100-bedded hospital opposite Eenadu Office near Benz Circle.
The Time Hospitals group has purchased two acres in Gollapudi for construction of a large hospital before establishing branches in other cities and towns.
The city branch of the L.V.Prasad Eye Hospital is near completion in Tadigadapa, a suburb of the city. Metro Super Speciality Hospitals with latest micro-scope that can greatly reduce the risk of brain surgery with a bed strength of 100.
The city already has hospitals being run by the major Manipal group and the fast expanding Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) and innumerable private hospitals and nursing homes cater to the ever growing needs of patients who come here from West Godavari, Krishna, Guntur districts and parts of Prakasam, Khammam and Nalgonda districts.
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Entire text of Chidambaram's statement at conference of chief ministers

Entire text of Chidambaram's statement at conference of chief ministers

Happy Sankraanti to all

అందరికి సంక్రాంతి  సుభాకామ్షలు.

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Ministers called on sonia

 Several senior ministers on Monday called on Congress President Sonia Gandhi and expressed their 'dissatisfaction' over the allotment of portfolios by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy during the cabinet formation.

Ministers Vatti Vasanth Kumar, Botsa Satyanaraya, Komatireddy Venkata Reddy, Dharmana Prasad, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Mukesh Goud, P Shankar Rao and Pithani Satyanarayana have expressed their displeasure at being allotted 'insignificant' portfolios.

They alleged that the Chief Minister had given top priority to Reddy community by allotting important portfolios. The Chief Minister had not even taken into account the regional and caste equations, and had completely ignored the seniority and experience of leaders while giving portfolios, the ministers said.

As many as 13 Ministers in the cabinet are from the Reddy community.

The High Command is yet to take a decision on Deputy Chief Minister's post, the next Pradesh Congress Committee President, the Speaker and Deputy Speaker's posts.

According to sources, PCC chief D Srinivas held consultations with Sonia Gandhi and Union Law Minister and AP Affairs In-Charge M Veerappa Moily.

Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy will leave for New Delhi on Monday night to finalise the names for Deputy CM, PCC Chief and Speaker posts with the Congress High Command.

According to speculations, J Geetha Reddy, Damodar Rajanarasimha and Ponnala Laxmaiah are in the race for the Deputy Chief Minister post.

The names of minority candidate Shabbir Ali and Marri Shashidhar Reddy are doing rounds for PCC chief post.

The High Command is considering Nadendla Manohar, the Deputy Speaker in the Assembly, for the Speaker post.

The Hindu : News / National : Absolutely necessary for PM to clear all "charges": CPI(M)

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SONIA KNOWS THE NAKED TRUTH

The Congress President Smt Sonia Gandhi has come to a conclusion that her party is very weak in many states including Karnataka of Southern India. The naked truth has been revealed by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Rosaiah in a Cabinet meeting held on 14^th October in Hyderabad.

The Chief Minister has asked the ministers to strengthen the party first and said it was the message which I brought from Delhi. 

In the recent days the Jammu and Kashmir issue has damaged the credit of Congress as a whole and position of party in Karnataka is being diminished by the acts of Governor Bharadwaj and other party leaders there. In the Gujarat party has lost local body elections and hope is less in Bihar to come to power throwing strong Nitish Kumar.

In Andhra Pradesh the position of party is said to be fine but Jaganmohana Reddy’s Odarpu Yatra is being the talk of the party. The high command is not in a position to take severe action who participated in the Yatra but issuing show cause notices to second rated leaders which generates unnecessary nuisance.

Some telangana leaders who don’t have any support of public gives statements against Jagan and Late YSR. Particularly Rajyasabha MPs VHanumontha Rao and KesavaRao slipped the words against Late YSR.

If any action against Jagan is initiated anything can happen in the party of Andhra Pradesh. Very cautiously AICC is acting upon and waiting for the time to axe on Jagan. But it would not be possible for the AICC as Jagan is strengthening as the days are passing on and he is also slowly changing the strategies. In the present Nellore Odarpu Yatra he has left out the Congress flag of Sonia and using his and his late Dad’s pictures. He could not care anybody whether prominent leaders are being participated in the Yatra or not. Only public giving much support to Jagan and that is only strength.

The Prakasm District Yatra had run for more than a month and every where he was fully supported by crowds and now also in Nellore district. In Nellore Yatra the Minister for Mucipal Administration Anam and his brother and MLA of Nellore is not participating but crowds are did not care them.

With these entire in mind the AICC has no guts to ask Rosaiah anybody in the cabinet and also to say except to ask to work vigorously.

VIJAYAWADA SRI KANAKADURGAMMA VAARU

Circular Train Services starts between Vijayawada-Guntur-Tenali

Circular MEMU Train Services Between Vijayawada – Guntur – Tenali from 14th October 2010




South Central Railway will introduce 9 ( Nine) circular MEMU suburban Train Services between Vijayawada- Guntur -Tenali as announced in the Railway budget with effect from 14th October 2010. Sri K. Rosaiah, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh will be the chief guest and Shri K.H. Muniyappa, Hon’ble Minister of State for Railways will preside over the inaugural function of these train services to be held at 11.30 a.m on 13th October 2010 at Vijayawada Railway station.



The detailed train timings of these services effective from 14th October, 2010 are as follows.

a) Train No. M181 / M186 / M187 Vijayawada -Tenali-Vijayawada MEMU (3 services)



1) Train No M 187 Vijayawada - Tenali MEMU will depart Vijayawada at 19.25 hrs, Krishna canal at 19.38 hrs, Kolanukonda Halt at 19.44hrs, Peddavadlapudi at 19.50hrs, Chiluvur at 19.56hrs, Duggirala at 20.02hrs, Kolakalur at 20.08hrs and arrive Tenali at 20.15hrs.



2) Train No M 181 Vijayawada - Tenali MEMU will depart Vijayawada at 09.35 hrs, Krishna canal at 09.48 hrs, Kolanukonda Halt at 09.54hrs, Peddavadlapudi at 10.00hrs, Chiluvur at 10.06hrs, Duggirala at 10.12hrs, Kolakalur at 10.18hrs and arrive Tenali at 10.35hrs.



3) Train No M 186 Tenali-Vijayawada MEMU will depart Tenali at 18.00 hrs, Kolakalur at 18.06hrs, Duggirala at 18.12hrs, Chiluvur at 18.20hrs, Peddavadlapudi at 18.26hrs, Kolanukonda Halt at 18.32 hrs, Krishna canal at 18.40 hrs, and arrive Vijayawada at 19.00hrs.



b) Train No.M 182/ M 185/ M 188 Guntur-Tenali-Guntur MEMU (3 services)



1) Train No M 185 Guntur-Tenali MEMU will depart Guntur at 17.15 hrs, Vejendla at 17.25 hrs, Sangamjagarlamudi at 17.31 hrs, Angalakuduru at 17.37 hrs, and arrive Tenali at 17.55hrs.



2) Train No M 182 Tenali-Guntur MEMU will depart Tenali at 10.40 hrs, Angalakuduru at 10.46 hrs, Sangamjagarlamudi at 10.52 hrs, Vejendla at 11.00 hrs, and arrive Guntur at 11.50 hrs.



3) Train No M 188 Tenali-Guntur MEMU will depart Tenali at 20.20 hrs, Angalakuduru at 20.26 hrs, Sangamjagarlamudi at 20.32 hrs, Vejendla at 20.39 hrs, and arrive Guntur at 20.55 hrs.



c) Train No.M 184 / M 183 / M 191 Vijayawada-Guntur-Vijayawada MEMU (3 services)



1) Train No M 184 Vijayawada-Guntur MEMU will depart Vijayawada at 16.00 hrs, Krishna Canal at 16.14 hrs, Mangalagiri at 16.25 hrs, Numburu at 16.37 hrs, Pedakakani Halt at 16.43 hrs., and arrive Guntur at 17.00 hrs.



2) Train No M 183 Guntur-Vijayawada MEMU will depart Guntur at 12.10 hrs, Pedakakani Halt at 12.19 hrs, Numburu at 12.25 hrs, Mangalagiri at 12.37 hrs, Krishna Canal at 12.47 hrs., and arrive Vijayawada at 13.10 hrs.



3) Train No M 191 Guntur-Vijayawada MEMU will depart Guntur at 21.10 hrs, Pedakakani Halt at 21.19 hrs, Numburu at 21.25 hrs, Mangalagiri at 21.37 hrs, Krishna Canal at 21.47 hrs., and arrive Vijayawada at 22.10 hrs.



All these train services will comprise of 8 coaches. These train services will not run on Sundays.



Abstract timings of inaugural special MEMU Train Services on 13th October, 2010



1) Train No M181 A Vijayawada-Guntur MEMU will depart Vijayawada at 11.50 hrs, and arrive Guntur at 12.50 hrs. Enroute, the train will stop at Krishna Canal, Mangalagiri, Namburu, Pedakakani Halt.



2) Train No.M182 A Guntur-Tenali MEMU will depart Guntur at 13.20 hrs., and arrive Tenali at 13.55 hrs. Enroute, the train will stop at Vejendla, Sangamjagarlamudi, Angalakuduru.



3) Train No.M183 A Tenali-Vijayawada MEMU will depart Tenali at 14.20 hrs., and arrive Vijayawada at 15.20 hrs. Enroute, the train will stop at Kolakalur, Duggirala, Chiluvur, Peddavadlapudi, Kolanukonda Halt, Krishna Canal.

( Chandrima Roy )

Chief Public Relations Officer



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DISPUTED AYODHYA LAND BE SHARED BY THREE

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has ordered that the disputed holy site in Ayodhya be divided into three parts: one-third for Hindu Mahasabha, one-third for Sunni Waqf Board and one-third for the Nirmohi Akhara.
comprising justices SU Khan, Sudhir Agarwal and DV Sharma today delivered a split verdict
However, the entire bench is of the view that the central dome of the disputed structure goes to Hindu Mahasabha, where the idols were installed in 1949 and again in 1992 after the demolition of the Babri Mosque. The sita rasoi and ram chabootara have been given to Nirmohi Akhara.

JALAYAJNAM AT CROSS ROADS

By Desaraju Surya
 By any count, the most ambitious and equally controversial “Jalayagnam” programme undertaken by the Andhra Pradesh government has been a disaster so far.

Controversies, legal battles, environmental concerns, adverse observations by the Comptroller and Auditor General over large-scale financial misappropriation, lack of statutory clearances, inter-state disputes, natural calamities and, above all, a grave financial crunch have contributed to the grandiose programme going way off the track over the last six years.

When initially conceived in 2004 by the then Y S Rajasekhara Reddy government, the Jalayagnam – dubbed by the rulers as a “massive water conservation ritual” – was meant to provide water for irrigation to an additional 82 lakh acres of agricultural land in Andhra, Rayalaseema and Telangana regions of the state through 32 major and 17 medium projects in five years (by 2009). The initial cost estimates for these projects were Rs 65,000 crore.

Six years after the programme was launched, the government had already spent Rs 53,206 crore but could irrigate only an additional 26.25 lakh acres as per the latest count. By now the number of projects under the programme has gone up to 88, including 44 major and 30 medium, to irrigate an additional one crore acres while the cost too escalated to a staggering Rs 1,79,679 crore. Of the total, 39 have been identified as “priority” projects that will be completed in the first go.

The revised deadline for completion of the Jalayagnam programme is year 2014 – when general elections are due in the state – but, by all means, even that deadline will be missed, Irrigation Department officials admit.

All the works have come to a virtual standstill as the state government owes over Rs 6,000 crore to the contractors executing the projects. Given the severe financial crisis, the government is finding it difficult to clear the dues and let the works progress, the officials say. “We have cleared dues amounting to over Rs 1,500 crore so far and will be clearing the balance in a phased manner,” a top official of the Department said.

“We have completed 12 irrigation projects in the last six years, including four major, under Jalayagnam. These projects created a capacity to impound an additional 295 tmc ft of water which in turn contributes to an additional agricultural production worth Rs 8,850 crore per annum in the state,” Major Irrigation Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah claimed.

Chief Minister K Rosaiah or Lakshmaiah never lose an opportunity to proclaim that Jalayagnam continues to be the government’s “flagship” programme and will be completed at all costs.

There is a rider, of course: the Government of India should be magnanimous to accord “national status” to at least three major projects so that the state can get 90 per cent of funds as grant.

Take the case of the multi-purpose Polavaram irrigation project on river Godavari.

For the last six years, the state government has been desperately seeking national status for Polavaram even as the project cost has shot up from Rs 10,151 crore in 2009 to Rs 17,600 crore as per the latest estimates. But there has so far been no word from the Centre on granting national status to the project while neighbouring Orissa is strongly fighting against it claiming that the project would lead to submergence of many villages on its side.

AP and Orissa are now locked in a legal battle in the Supreme Court over Polavaram.

Another major controversial project, the Pranahita-Chevella Lift Irrigation Scheme, has not got any statutory clearance from the Centre even two years after it was launched with a lot of fanfare. The project cost too shot up from Rs 33,500 crore to over Rs 40,000 crore now, official sources say. AP is not in a position to complete this project on its own and is looking desperately towards the Centre for according “national status” and bearing 90 per cent of the cost.

This project alone needs 3466 MW of power to lift water from Pranahita, a tributary of river Godavari, to a height of 1343 meters, resulting in an annual recurring expenditure of over Rs 2,300 crore.

“It is utterly foolish to take up such a project involving huge recurring expenditure. Can the government assure that it is ready to bear the annual expenditure,” questioned Lok Satta Party president and MLA N Jayaprakash Narayan.

But, the government has simply brushed aside his contention and asserted that it would go ahead with the project “for the betterment of Telangana.”

Pranahita-Chevella was mired in another controversy when it came to light that an astounding Rs 1,100 crore was paid to a private consultant for preparation of the detailed project report of which Rs 600 crore was already paid. The Public Accounts Committee of the state Legislature saw red over this and forced the irrigation department authorities to stop further payments.

Alarm bells, however, started ringing in the state government when Union Water Resources Minister Pavan Kumar Bansal stated that only one intra-state project would be funded under the category of national project. Chief Minister Rosaiah immediately wrote a letter to Bansal recalling that the Pranahita-Chevella project was among the 25 medium and major irrigation projects included in the Prime Minister’s package and was thus eligible for financial support under the Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme.

Still, there has been no response from the Centre on this, official sources in the Chief Minister’s Office said.

Another major project that has overshot several deadlines is Pulichintala on river Krishna. Meant to stabilize an ayacut of 13.5 lakh acres in five districts in Krishna’s command area, this project was supposed to be ready in 2007 but not even 60 per cent of the works have been completed yet, official sources admit. “The coffer dam of the project got washed away in floods at least three times leading to inordinate delay in completion of Pulichintala,” they say.

Such examples are one too many in the Jalayagnam story. And, it has no end in sight.

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First duel role cinema producer of Telugu gets DADA SAAHEB PHALKE award

Telugu film producer Daggubati Ramanaidu feel honored when the central government has conferred on him with Daada Saahab Phalke award on Thursday.


Ramanaidu is the most renowned film producer of India as he produced more than hundred films in various Indian languages. His first film is being RAMUDU-BHIMUDU a duel role film of NT Rama Rao and later many films with Akkineni Nageswara Rao. His film Ramudu-Bhimudu was produced in Hindi with Dilipkumar which was a great success.

He hails from Karamchedu of Prakasam District and his eldest son Suresh is a film producer and last son Venkatesh is a film actor. His grandson Rana is an upcoming actor of Telugu.

He once elected as parliament member of Loksabha from Bapatla on Telugudesam Ticket and now he is far from the parties.

He has introduced so many new directors with his films and he is a Gunnies Book record holder.

He is the second person who honored with this title after ANR in Telugu film field.