Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday declared that some State government offices would start functioning from Vijayawada from April next. He was addressing the TD Legislature Party meeting in the Assembly here.
According to party sources, Mr. Naidu said if necessary the offices would function from temporary sheds even while he sought to remind the legislators that Hyderabad would continue to be the common capital for 10 years.
Mr. Naidu said from January 3, 2015 he would interact with party MLAs every Saturday at Lake View Guest House and also wanted all the Ministers to attend these meetings. Revenues up
Pointing to the huge increase made by the government in pension amounts, he told them to ensure that the message reached the people. He also mentioned how the revenues had increased due to the new sand mining policy and global auctioning of red sanders logs seized from smugglers.
He declared that the government would give gift packs of essential commodities to people on festivals like Christmas and this move would cost Rs. 300 crore to the exchequer.
Referring to the criticism by one YSR Congress leader on Polavaram project, the Chief Minister accused YSRC president Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy of talking with a forked tongue on the issue. He said the State government was keen on linking rivers in the State on the lines planned by the Centre.
On farmers’ suicides, he refuted reports that 23 people had ended their lives and maintained that there were only six such cases.
When some MLAs said that migrants were not getting pensions as they were not having Aadhaar cards, Mr. Naidu said already 90 per cent of the people had Aadhaar numbers and they too should also enrol themselves.
