Vijayawada: Andhra
Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has said a people’s capital will be
developed connecting Vijayawada, Guntur, Tenali and Mangalagiri. Land pooling
will begin with the participation of farmers within two or three
months.
Mr Naidu was addressing a meeting after
launching Doordarshan’s Saptagiri channel here on Saturday. He will launch all
major programmes from Vijayawada here after. The CM will launch “Swatcha Andhra Pradesh” on the
lines of “Swatcha Bharat” in Vijayawada on October 2.
Mr Naidu said Prime Minister Narendra Modi
proposed the “Make in India” programme and he has decided to make AP a
destination for manufacturing centres and popularise the concept of “Made in
AP”.
Mr Naidu stressed on the need for
decentralisation of development and added that the development programmes would
be linked to four districts of Rayalaseema. Work will start at the foundation
level in the new capital, he said.
He expressed concern over the unhealthy
competition in the media and priority given to negative campaigns in the name of
breaking news. Earlier, DD Saptagiri
director-general Vijayalakshmi Chabra, said, the Saptagiri channel would beam
programmes for the benefit of five crore people in Andhra Pradesh.
Union minister for urban development M.
Venkaiah Naidu presided over the programme. Among those present were, deputy CM N. Chinarajappa,
ministers Palle Raghunatha Reddy, Kamineni Srinivas, Devineni Umamaheswara Rao,
Kollu Ravindra, MLCs Nannapaneni Rajakumari, Chaitanya Raju, MPs Kesineni
Srinivas, K. Narayana, Maganti Venkateswara Rao, Gokaraju Ganga Raju, Prasar
Bharathi CEO Jawahar Sarkar, AIR director general Shahariar and other senior DD
officials.