Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas has become the first Minister to shift his office to Vijayawada after the city was declared the temporary capital of Andhra Pradesh.
The Minister symbolically occupied his office on the second floor of Dr. N.T.R.University of Health Sciences after a puja. University Vice-Chancellor T. Ravi Raju, Visakhapatnam MP and BJP State president Kambhampathi Haribabu participated in the ceremony.
“It is like coming home,” the Minister said after occupying his seat. He added that it had made him immensely happy as he could shift on the first Independence Day in Andhra Pradesh after bifurcation. He said he would function from the Vijayawada office until the new capital was constructed.
“Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu also announced that he would establish an office in Vijayawada soon,” Mr. Srinivas said. The Minister also thanked the university authorities for sparing space for him at such short notice.
Meanwhile, the Director of Ground Water Department inaugurated his camp office in the Vijayawada Irrigation Circle compound in the city. Speaking to reporters, Director K. Venugopal said the office would function regularly to implement various schemes of the department.
Minister for Major Irrigation Devineni Umamaheswara Rao was ahead of his other Cabinet colleagues when he established a full-fledged camp office in the new buildings constructed in the Irrigation Circle Compound even before he formally took charge as Minister. Incidentally, his camp office came in handy to the Chief Minister to conduct reviewing meeting when he came here.
