Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) is providing Unique Digital Addressing Solution for Urban Dwellings (UDASUD) for the households in the city. With this, a metal plate will be installed to each house. It contains navigation details and address location services. Property tax will also be synchronize to this service.

This would be done by VMC free of cost. The project has been taken on pilot basis for 3 lakh assessments.

Already Zipper Company has started this and providing zipper code by visiting the houses. Right now, they are providing stickers only and later it would be converted to metal sheets.

The new system helps in easily changing or retrieving a new address at any time and it would navigate through online.

How to get this new digital door numbers:

• Right now door to door survey is going on
• A Representative from VMC will come and take Geo coordinates of your house
• Then they provide you digital address unique code
• Once you receive the new digital door number, log on to www.ourvmc.org/digitaladdress
• Here you have to activate your digital Address, by providing, Name, Mobile Number and Digital Address Number
• Then Click on Activate Now, to get your digital address activated

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Workers dismantled the railway coach of Ratnachal Express at the Foreman Bungalow in Vijayawada. Ratnachal Express was torched during the kapu reservations agitation in Tuni in East Godavari District.

Ratnachal Express has a history of 19 years. The train will travel across 12 major stations, from Vijayawada to Vizag. It carries almost 5000 passengers everyday and collects Rs.6 lakh every day. The train starts at 6.05 AM every day from Vijayawada, and passes through Nuzvid, Eluru, Tadepalligudem, Nidadavolu, Rajamundry, Samarlakota, Ananvaram, Tuni, Anakapalli, Duvvada and reaches Visakhapatnam by 12.15 PM. And in return, it starts at 12.40 PM from Vizag and reaches Vijayawada by 6.30 PM. Passengers are very comfortable with the train timings and also the duration as the travel time is just 6 hours.

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Indrakeeladri,the world-famous Kanaka Durga temple is getting a complete facelift with an estimated cost of Rs. 50 crore. Government is planning to preserve ancient structures atop in the hill. It has asked forest department to de-notify 120 acres of forest land on the hill.

The place where Arjuna worshiped Lord Shiva for Pashupatastra, a temple for Pasupatheeswara Swamy was built during the Pallava era at the summit of Indrakeeladri. Now, the state government wants to have the temple reconstructed and construct a ghat road to that temple.

The other things going to happen are:

• Holy plants, medicinal plants, nakshatra vanam to form green belt zone
• Way from Durga Temple to Malleswara Swamy temple to be widened and Beautified
• Road from arch gate in Arjun street to Malleswara Swamy temple to be widened up to 60 feed
• Kalavedika to come up on 3rd floor of Mahamandapam
• Parallel Ghat road from head water works to be laid
• Permanent CCTV systems to be set up
• Annadana Satram to be relocated
• Ghat roads, Hillocks to be beautified

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Abu Dhabi–Based BRS Ventures Ltd and Government of Andhra Pradesh came inot MoU for establishment of 1500 bed hospital in Amaravati and 300 bed hospital in Kurnool. The total project cost is expected to be around 12000 Crores.

In the presense of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, A.P Economic Development Board CEO J. Krishna Kishore BRS Ventures Limited Chairman B.R. Shetty signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

Below are the highlights of the MoU:

• By 2018, 3500 beds hospitals would be constructed across the state
• Asia’s first medical analytics centre and a medical knowledge process outsourcing centre at Amaravati
• A medical university, a drug manufacturing unit in A.P
• Construction of a five-star hotel
• Construction of a convention centre