VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has appealed to the Centre to take necessary action for establishing an integrated steel plant in Kadapa as assured in the AP Reorganisation Act. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister urged the Centre to file a revised affidavit in the Supreme Court considering the latest feasibility report being furnished by MECON.
Referring to the affidavit filed by the Centre in the Supreme Court recently, Naidu, in the letter, said, “It is learnt that the Ministry of Steel has filed an affidavit in the Apex Court stating that the project is not economically feasible. It appears that the said affidavit was filed based on the initial report of the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).
This news has aroused the feelings and emotions of the people of AP in general and those from Kadapa district in particular. The project, if materialised, will help make the backward Rayalaseema region economically prosperous.’’ He said that it is the statutory duty of the Centre to fulfil the assurance in the Act that SAIL shall examine feasibility of establishing steel plant in Kadapa within six months.
Kadapa steel plant
June 17, 2015 - Ministry of Steel sent a communication regarding the feasibility study of SAIL on setting up of 3 MTPA Integrated Steel Plant in Kadapa district
August 4, 2015 - Centre reconstituted the task force to consider the feasibility issue
6 - Number of meetings conducted by the task force so far
February 14, 2018 - MECON (Present consultant) submitted a feasibility report to the Ministry of Steel
January 12, 2018 - CM called on PM and submitted a memorandum seeking to set up the steel plant in Kadapa
CM seeks probe
June 13: In a letter addressed to Union Minister for Culture Mahesh Sharma, the CM sought an inquiry into the motives of the correspondence between Archaeological Survey of India Headquarters in Delhi and Superintending Archaeologist in Amaravati on bringing TTD
on the list of protected monuments
AP share of natural gas
June 11: In a missive to Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, the CM congratulated him on commencing production through ONGC at Nagayalanka fields of Krishna district in a short time. He requested the minister to allocate gas on a priority basis to AP as around 4,000 MW gas-based plants are lying idle in the State