Hyderabad, Oct 7th: Tightening his grip over administration, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K. Rosaiah Wednesday removed controversial police officer S.S.P. Yadav as the director general of police and appointed Girish Kumar as the new state police chief, besides shifting other key officials. The move came after Yadav made controversial remarks following the death of chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy in a helicopter crash Sep 2.
After YSR's death, Yadav had stated that the responsibility of the police ended when the chief minister boarded the chopper. He also came under criticism for the police failure to track the missing chopper for 24 hours and also for the traffic chaos during the late leader's cremation, preventing the home minister and several top leaders from attending the last rites. Yadav was earlier transferred on the orders of the Election Commission for praising YSR during the Lok Sabha election process in April, but was reinstated by YSR when he became chief minister for the second term in May.
While R.R. Girish Kumar, who was director general of anti-corruption bureau, is the new state police chief, Yadav has been transferred as managing director of the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC). After taking over as the new police chief, Girish Kumar said he would fight corruption, bring more transparency in the police department and improve the interface between police and media. Rosaiah also appointed P. Gautam Kumar, Director General of Andhra Pradesh Special Police Battalions, as principal secretary to the home department.
Huge damage to crops due to floods Posted on 08-Oct-2009
New Delhi, Oct 7th: Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister Raghuveera Reddy has said that crops worth billions of rupees were damaged in by floods. Due to the recent floods about 2 lakh 80 hectares of crops have damaged. The total loss that was preliminary assessed so far is about 1,250 crores and the i...
100% tax exemption on donations Posted on 08-Oct-2009
Hyderabad, Oct 7th: The state government on Wednesday announced that 100 percent tax exemption could be claimed on donations given to the Chief Ministers Relief Fund to help the flood victims. The revenue minister, Mr. Dharmana Prasad Rao, told media persons that the exemption could be availed under ...
Aerial survey of flood hit by PM Posted on 08-Oct-2009
Hyderabad, Oct 7th: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will make an aerial survey of flood-hit districts of Andhra Pradesh on Friday. Manmohan Singh will arrive in Vijayawada by a special aircraft from New Delhi at 11.20 a.m. and conduct the survey by a helicopter. He will fly over Krishna, Guntur, Kurnoo...
MLA support to flood hit victims Posted on 08-Oct-2009
Kakinada, Oct 7th: Kakinada city MLA, Mr. Dwarampudi Chandra Shekar Reddy along with mayor, Kavikondala Saroja, Corporators and other party cadre has extended their support to the flood hit victims of Kurnool, Mahbubnagar and other neighboring districts on Wednesday. Total support in the form of clot...
Govt hospital acquires equipment Posted on 09-Oct-2009
Kakinada, Oct 8th: The Government General Hospital has acquired equipment worth about Rs 75 lakhs including a bio-chemical analyzer, a three-dimensional colour Doppler and a paediatric ventilator. It has also got a donation of Rs 80 lakhs from AMG International for procurement of a CT scanner by the ...
Basketball selections held Posted on 09-Oct-2009
Guntur, Oct 8th: The Vignan’s Lara Institute of Technology and Science at Vadlamudi organized selections for JNTU-Kakinada basketball men and women’s teams at its campus on Thursday. The process would continue on Friday also with 80 players from 50 engineering colleges affiliated to JNTU-...
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