Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day go to to Vizag on November 11 and 12, the proposed disinvestment of presidency stake in Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) rocked the GVMC council assembly on Friday. CPM corporator B Ganga Rao alleged that the Union authorities is wantonly throwing the plant into losses in a bid to promote it off to company entities.
“Steel production has reduced to 8,000 tonnes a day from 20,000 tonnes. As coal is not being sufficiently allocated, VSP has to import coal from other countries by paying hefty amounts. Nearly 8,000 displaced families are still waiting for employment since several decades,” he alleged.
There was additionally heated argument between the CPM corporator and BJP MLC P V N Madhav, who was additionally current on the council assembly, on the privatisation situation. Madhav mentioned they’ve requested the Union authorities to merge VSP into entities like SAIL as an alternative of choosing privatisation.
“PM Narendra Modi will launch/lay the foundation stone for 15 major infrastructural projects during his two-day tour. Vizag is going to be the headquarters of a new railway zone, which is a major achievement for the region,” mentioned Madhav.
Visaka Ukku-Andhrula Hakku (Vizag Steel Plant is true of Andhraites) slogans reverberated within the council for a very long time throughout Friday’s assembly. Ruling get together MLC Varudu Kalyani mentioned individuals from all political events ought to oppose the privatisation of VSP. “We already learned lessons from what happened to AP in the case of Hyderabad during bifurcation. The YSRC government has proposed a three-capital plan to ensure the same is not repeated again in future,” mentioned Kalyani.
Madhav mentioned the decentralisation course of is already over with the reorganisation of the erstwhile 13 districts into 26. “No further decentralisation is needed for Andhra Pradesh,” he countered.
Meanwhile, the GVMC has determined to cast off the prevailing chainman system as ward secretariats have now bought planning secretaries. The civic physique additionally constituted a committee to border tips to function the evening meals courtroom bazaar. During the assembly, the GVMC mayor suspended a BJP and two TDP corporators as ‘a disciplinary measure to restore order in the council’.
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Source: auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com