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GUNTUR: With the Guntur Municipal Corporation (GMC) constructing thousands of  individual and community toilets in the various localities of the city under the Swachh Bharat and Swachh Andhra Pradesh Missions, the problem of open defecation will soon become a thing of the past. So far, the GMC officials have constructed about 7,000 individual toilets along with providing water facility in most of the localities. Observing that the open defection had become a cause of concern in maintaining better sanitation as well as in controlling the spread of communicable diseases particularly in the slum areas and the panchayats on the outskirts of the city, which would soon come under the purview of corporation, the GMC officials gave special emphasis to such area and took up the process on construction of individual toilets with the funds sanctioned under the Swachh Bharat Mission and Swatch Andhra Pradesh Mission taken up by the the Centre and State Government respectively. After han...

The Andhra Pradesh Government is according the highest priority to the agricultural sector and all efforts will be made to make farming remunerative, according to Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. He was speaking at Lam Farm near here on Monday after the foundation stone for the Acharya N.G Ranga Agricultural University was laid by Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh. He said the university was coming up on 500 acres in Lam Farm, which is at present an agricultural research station, and Rs. 1500 crore would be spent on it over the next five years. He urged the Agriculture Minister to accord it the status of a central university and make available the requisite funds and facilities. He said the State Government had released Rs. 23,000 crore under a loan waiver scheme in the State and it had come as a great relief to the farmers. Radha Mohan Singh said agricultural universities would have to play a great role in undertaking research and extension to the fields as technolog...