CM Jagan writes letter to Union minister seeking transfer of railway land to state
Updated Feb 26, 2021, 4:01 am IST
He requested that the railway land in Rajarajeswari Peta be handed over to the AP government so that this could be regularised
The CM explained that nearly 800 poor families lived in houses they had built on railway land in Raja Rajeswari Peta area here more than 30 years ago and that they had unsuccessfully made several representations to the government to regularise these encroachments. (Photo: Twitter @AndhraPradeshCM)
VIJAYAWADA: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy has addressed a letter to Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, offering transfer of some land to the railways in lieu of the land occupied by nearly 800 families within the municipal corporation limits here.
Feb 25, 2021, 15:13 IST
VIJAYAWADA: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy addressed a letter to the Union Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal about the transfer of land belonging to the railways in lieu of the land occupied by nearly 800 families within the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation in Vijayawada.
He requested that the railway lands in Rajarajeswari Peta be handed over to the AP government so that they be regularised. In the letter, he stated that 25 acres of railway land near Ajit Singh Nagar would be handed over to the railways in lieu of Raja Rajeshwaripeta railway lands.
A joint team of officials from the Revenue Department and the Railways visited the encroached land and the proposed site for exchange. He said that the Railway authorities also expressed their satisfaction over the land near Ajit Singh Nagar.
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800 poor families have been living there for 30 years, CM tells Goyal
The State government has requested the Centre to forgo the lands belonging to the Indian Raliways in Vijayawada city, which have been occupied by nearly 800 poor families for more than 30 years now and accept in exchange a suitable land at another place.
In a letter addressed to the Union Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal, Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy sought to draw the Minister s attention to the fact that these families had been living in these lands at Raja Rajeswaripet in the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) limits for over three decades.
AP minister slams Naidu, BJP for their ‘immoral’ politics
Updated Feb 21, 2021, 4:49 am IST
He alleged that Telugu Desam and BJP are misleading people in the name of religion for achieving political gains
Srinivas Rao visited various areas in the city under municipal election campaign in support of YSRC candidates. (Photo: ANI)
VIJAYAWADA: Minister for endowment Vellampalli Srinivas Rao alleged that Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu and BJP leaders Somu Veerraju, and G.V.L. Narasimha Rao, a Rajya Sabha member, are trying to create communal disturbances despite Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy initiated measures for the protection of religious places. He stated that YSRC government had constructed the Antarvedi chariot within 90 days after it was commissioned by the Chief Minister, which shows the government s respect for all religions.