Assembly session at Nagarjuna varsity
HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh government is planning to hold the winter session of the Assembly at the conference hall of the Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU) campus, located on the Vijayawada-Guntur stretch.
By doing so, chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu reportedly wants to send signals to the people of Seemandhra that he is firm on running the administration from the new capital of the reorganised state at the earliest.
According to sources, Naidu is contemplating holding the Assembly session at the ANU campus from December 4. As the university, which has sprawling 293-acre campus has a spacious conference hall, the chief minister reportedly asked officials concerned to examine the possibility of conducing the session in the building.
Since the university is adjacent to the national highway and is just 20 km from Vijayawada and 40 km from Gannavaram airport, the government is said to be of the view that it would be an ideal location for conducting the ensuing Assembly session.
As Naidu's efforts to relocate the heads of departments (HoDs) to the new capital appear to have hit a roadblock for now since the three-member officials committee is still in the process of gathering information with regard to the office space required for shifting offices to the new capital, the chief minister is understood to have decided to use the opportunity of holding the Assembly session near Vijayawada to reiterate his commitment to shift the seat of power into AP's jurisdiction at the earliest.
Though Naidu had already identified some HoDs to be shifted to the jurisdiction of the reorganised state right now, many of the officials belonging to these departments were understood to be not ready for the same citing non-availability of sufficient office space in Vijayawada and high rents in the city.
News Posted: 11 October, 2014
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