Andhra Pradesh Secretariat Staff who have to move to Amaravati from Hyderabad, by June 27th are now making new demands to shift to Amaravati. After Minister P Narayana confirmed that, by any cost the employees should start working from June 27th, at Velagapudi in the new capital region , some employees are keeping more demands before the government.

The secretariat employees are asking to give seats to their children in corporate schools in Vijayawada and Guntur. Also they are demanding the same for the students studying in engineering and medical colleges. The employees are saying that, we would shift only if our children get seats in reputed and corporate schools in the new capital region.

Earlier Chief Minister declared 5 days work and 30% HRA to employees who are shifting from Hyderabad to Amaravati. Now with the date approaching to start working from new secretariat, the employees have come back with a fresh demand.

Also there are reports that many of the secretariat staff, who are reluctant to move to the new capital region, are availing for voluntary retirement.

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The suspense has come down for the establishment of food park sanctioned by Central Government. The budget allocation for this project has been done 6 months back, but the site is not confirmed. APIIC has first thought of establishing the food park in Agiripalli. But finally it has decided to set up the food park in Mallavalli, at Bapulapadu Mandal in Krishna District.

APIIC has handed over the land of 100 acres. The road, rail and air connectivity is very nearer to this area.

Central Government has already sanctioned Rs.200 crores to the food park. As now the site is ready, the administration is getting ready to construct the food park in a brisk pace.

Andhra Pradesh produces six lakh metric tonnes of mango, three lakh tonnes of tomato, 20,000 tonnes of maize, 10 lakh tonnes of sugarcane and 1,543 million eggs every year. With the proposed food park, storage of these perishables becomes easy.

Prakasam barrage will be one of the icons for Amaravati capital city location soon. According to officials, the Haridam organisation, which is handling the works of 38 acres park, pilgrimage centre and tourist spots proposed by the state government in Tirupati, has designed plans for decorating Prakasam barrage along with various other tourist attractions before Krishna Pushkaralu.

The lighting system on the two sides of Prakasam barrage, laser show and premier fountain would be developed in a permanent manner. Krishna district collector A. Babu said that several organisations submitted their proposals to decorate Prakasam barrage and the irrigation department finalised the designs.

In a separate meeting here on Thursday, the district collector directed the officials to take steps for denotifying 197 hectares of forest lands at Kotturu village in Krishna district for constructing houses for the poorer sections of society.

Amaravati Land Pooling is becoming a model now all over India. Recently Maharashtra government is attracted towards Amaravati Land Pooling model adopted by Chandrababu. Maharashtra CM Devender Fadnavis shown interest in land pooling and sent his team to Vijayawada, to study the model. CRDA officials have explained in detail about the model.

Maharashtra government is planning to build a parallel express way from Mumbai to Pune, of approx. 700 kms. For this they are going to pool the lands from farmers.