Leader to intensify stir for major public sector port at Ramayapatnam

Leaders of opposition parties on Saturday resolved to agitate to suppress the ₹ 25,000 crore public sector port in the backward district Prakasam in Ramayanapatnam to boost economic development.

In response to a question in Parliament after Union Minister Mansukh Mandavia, expressed his inability to finance a non-major port (NMP) in Ramayanapatnam, Chau of Prakasam District Forum (PDDF). Ranga Rao provoked the YSR Congress Party government to pressurize the central government to take the port, as promised in the State Reorganization Act, in view of the subsequent reservation for taking up the project at Dugarajapatnam in Nellore district at Ramayantham. .

Shipbuilding industry

The leaders decided to go to a delegation in Amravati to push for the location of a shipbuilding industry in the district, by joining together the most backward parts of Nellore, Kurnool and Guntur districts and mobilizing more people around it Was backward since its formation. Ramayanapatnam including Singaraikonda for the long struggle.

The Center halted the public sector port project after Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee Vice President Shripati Prakasam allegedly raised stake in Krishnapatnam Port Limited (KPCL) by Adani Ports and SEZ Limited. TDP Ongole Lok Sabha Unit President N. Balaji said that state lawmakers should not hesitate in their papers for big reasons.

CPI District President ML Narayan said that people who cut across party-lines should be mobilized for the ‘Vidhan Sabha Chalo’ movement to highlight injustice with the state. CPI (M) leader p. Hanumantha Rao said that the state assembly should urge the Center to start a central port project at Ramayapatnam instead of an NMP.