Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu will be staying in the city on Friday and Saturday to participate in different programmes.
This time too, the Chief Minister stayed overnight in the bus on the CM Camp office premises after arriving from Visakhapatnam late on Thursday night.
He would be staying in the vehicle on Friday night also, officials said.
Review meet
As part of his two-day visit to the city, Mr. Naidu will be participating in a review meeting on primary sector mission, which involves different departments at the A1 Convention centre. Special Commissioners, Principal Secretaries of different departments and Collectors of 13 districts would be making power point presentations during the meeting.
On Saturday, the Chief Minister will conduct a meeting with Telugu Desam MPs, MLAs, MLCs, Zilla Parishad chairpersons and others at Seshasai Kalyana Mandapam from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. He is likely to leave to Hyderabad in a special flight from Gannavaram airport at 7 p.m.
Need for convention centre
Meanwhile, holding such meetings in the city has yet again brought to the fore the need for a convention centre. The first Collectors’ conference post-bifurcation was held in a city hotel on August 7 last year and had cost the government exchequer around Rs. 21 lakh, while its second edition in January early this year, the budget was nearly Rs. 30 lakh.
In the first edition of the Collectors conference, more than 150 officials had attended the meeting.
Similar was the case during the second edition as well.
The Krishna district administration had identified 35 acres of land at Ibrahimpatnam for constructing a convention centre and other buildings.
The Industrial Infrastructure Corporation too had inspected the site last year but no decision had been taken yet, said an official.
Naidu to stay in the city today and tomorrow
