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Pawan Kalyan launches digital campaign on AP roads

Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan had launched an innovative campaign on the present situation of roads in Andhra Pradesh. The Jana Sena would now take the photographs and video graphs of the existing roads in the state and post them in the social media.

The Jana Sena would also post these photos and videos with #GoodMorningCMSir. Pawan Kalyan had asked the rank and file of the party to take photographs and video graphs of the roads in their area. He wanted every worker of the party to go on to the roads in their area and collect data on the present situation.

Pawan Kalyan said that Jagan Mohan Reddy had failed to lay even a single road in the state. As the roads were not laid in the last three years, people were suffering all over the state. The movement of vehicles had become difficult on these roads, the Jana Sena chief said.

Interestingly, Pawan Kalyan had launched a programme on the AP roads a few months ago. He filled some potholes first in his Rajamahendravaram tour. Later, his party leaders too repeated the programme for a month or so.

Now, after several months, the Jana Sena has relaunched the programme and is campaigning in the digital platform.

Meanwhile, the TDP too had decided to take up a similar campaign in the state. The party had directed its social media activists to take the photographs of the damaged roads in the state and post them in the social media by tagging the chief minister.

The campaign is likely to get support from the people as they have been suffering as the roads are not repaired or relayed by the present government in the last three years.

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Bad roads in AP to continue, contractors ignore tenders

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There seems to be no respite for people in Andhra Pradesh from bad roads anytime soon.

All the roads in AP are filled with potholes and badly damaged during the last two years with no maintenance works from the YSRCP government due to a financial crisis.

Jagan government has set up a separate corporation for road laying and repair works.

The corporation was allowed to take 2,205 crore loans from banks to pay for contractors who do works.

Despite this, contractors are not coming forward to take up road works in AP fearing that YSRCP government will default on payments as it is facing a severe financial crisis.

The AP government recently floated tenders to take up road works over an extent of 7.969 kilometres at a cost of Rs 2,205 crore.

Tenders were called for 1,123 road works. But contractors filed tenders only for 200 works.

Of this, 80% tenders were filed in CM Jagan’s home district Kadapa, mostly belonging to relatives and friends of Jagan with a belief that Jagan will clear their bills fast.

In other districts, there is no response from contractors.

Though the government is trying to convince contractors that the corporation mobilised Rs 2,205 crore loans and will pay bills directly, the contractors are not believing looking at the YSRCP government’s poor financial condition.

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Andhra to have pothole free roads by Jan 31, 2016

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Andhra Pradesh government is planning an out ring road (ORR) around new capital Amaravati. Today, in review meeting the officials from Roads and Buildings department in his camp office in Vijayawada, chief minister Chandrababu Naidu announced this. He said improving the road connectivity and the quality of the roas was his priority.

1. Construction of 180 km Amaravati outer ring road (ORR) will be taken up at a cost of Rs 20,000 crore
2. The CM asked the officials to make entire road network in Andhra Pradesh pothole-free by January 31, 2016.
3. He asked the officials to start work on the laying of 788 km new roads in the state in new financial year. The cost of the works is Rs 8,000 crore.
4. A 413 km long National Highway will be built from Tadipatri (Anantapur district)- Tokkapalli-Narsaraopet- Guntur. ( NH 544 D)
5. Another National Highway of 125 km will be laid between Kurnool-Nandikotkur- Atmakur-Dhornal (NH 340 C)
6. National Highway No 16 will be realigned between Anandapuram and Rajahmundry in an extent of 130 km.

Chief minister Naidu instructed the official that the Durga Gudi flyover in Vijayawada should be completed before the commencement of Krishna Puskharalu slated in next year. He also asked the officials to review the works on roads on day-to-day basis. In tune with the state government’s policy of paperless governance, the CM said, all the information about the roads in Andhra Pradesh should be digitized.

He instructed the official to start negotiations with the World Bank , Japan International Cooperation Agency to get the financial assistance for the development and improvement of road network in the state.

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Centre approves two capital road projects in AP

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Ministry of roads and surface transport, Govt of India approved a proposal to convert Andhra Pradesh state highways to national highways. Minister Nitin Gadkari, minister for roads and transport informed this to Andhra Pradesh government today by writing a letter.

The Roads approved are:

1. Connecting Anantapur with new capital Amaravathi via Kurnool NH 44 Connecting NH 65, 452 km: 2. Kurnool, Kadapa, Ananthapur NH 40 connecting NH 65, 132 kms

The cost of the project is Rs.1000 cr. Conversion of 4 lane to 6 and 8 lanes will be part of the project. National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) will commence the work once state government would give the land. The project will be taken up under PPP mode.

According to sources in chief minister’s office the union minister Gadkari also agreed to in principle to the proposed ORR of 186 kms around the New capital of AP Amaravati.

” Both, the state and the centre, are working with a concept that it should not take more than 4 to 5 hours for the  people from Srikakulam, Anantapur, Kurnool and Kadapa districts to reach the Capital, Amaravati,” sources said.

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