In sync!Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy arriving on a well-decorated bullock cart to the public meeting venue at Kanuru in Vijayawada on Tuesday.
VIJAYAWADA: A decision will be taken in 15 days on the extent of acquisition of farmers' land for handing over to developers of the Bandar port at Machilipatnam, Chief Minister Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy has said.
At a public meeting here on Tuesday, he asserted that the Government had agreed in principle to provide all permissions to the consortium for taking up port development works and there was clarity as to how much Government land had to be given. But on the question of farmers' land, there were certain issues and a decision would be taken soon, he added.
At the largely-attended meeting of DWCRA women's group members on VR Siddhartha Engineering College at Kanur, Mr. Reddy said that the issue regarding handing over of the land for the development of Gannavaram airport would also be solved soon.
He appealed to land owners not to worry about proposed bank loans to tenant farmers as owners would not be made accountable for these loans in any manner.
Mr. Reddy devoted most part of his speech to welfare programmes related to women, and said that his Government was exploring ways to provide bank loans to women's self-help group members at an interest less than even 25 paise.
The Government's commitment to improve the lot of women was evident from the fact that loans worth Rs. 7,080 crore had been provided to them last year while the amount would be increased this year to Rs. 9,880 crore.
Stating that house site pattas would be given in the name of women only, Mr. Kiran Kumar Reddy said that in the local body elections, 50 per cent reservations would be strictly implemented to ensure greater empowerment of women as per the wishes of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
He said that it was a matter of pride that the mission to construct 1,065 high schools with Rs. 35 lakh each was begun with Krishna district and it would help bring back all school dropouts in the State.
Secondary Education Minister K. Parthasarathy presided over the meeting while in-charge Minister Galla Aruna Kumari and MP Lagadapati Rajagopal spoke.
Also present were Primary Education Minister S. Sailajanath, Eluru MP Kavuri Sambasiva Rao, zilla parishad chairman Kukkala Nageswara Rao, MLAs Yelamanchili Ravi, Malladi Vishnu, Perni Venkataramaiah, Vellampalli Srinivas, and former ministers Devineni Nehru and Mandali Buddha Prasad.
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