Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to get a revised affidavit filed in the Supreme Court for the steel plant in YSR Kadapa district.
Backward region
In a letter to the PM, Mr. Naidu said the feasibility report being furnished by the MECON Limited be taken into consideration keeping in view of its utility for the backward Rayalaseema region.
He said the affidavit the Ministry of Steel had filed earlier was based on the initial report of the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), which dismissed it as economically unviable.
Mr. Naidu said he had personally submitted a memorandum to the PM in the wake of the MECON Limited’s report on the basis of the land details and topo sheets it provided to the State government.
He quoted from Schedule XIII of the A.P. Reorganisation Act where it was mentioned that SAIL should examine within six months the feasibility.
It was, therefore, a statutory duty on the part of the Government of India to do so, he said.
Curbs at Vizag airport
In a separate letter, Mr. Naidu requested Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman not to impose restrictions on the civilian air traffic at the Visakhapatnam airport till the proposed Bhogapuram international airport was completed.
After the development of the new airport, the runway at the naval air station INS Dega would be available exclusively for the military purpose, he said.
If restrictions were imposed, it would have effect for up to seven hours on weekdays including the peak traffic period in the evenings.
The military-civil coordination meeting held on May 2 proposed the restrictions for reserving certain slots for the military.
