The Jaganmohan Reddy cabinet has decided to allot 130 acres of land in Visakhapatnam's Madhurawada to the Adani group to build a mega data centre and business park.
Madhurawada is the locality near the seashore where Vizag's IT and related sector firms are concentrated.
“The 130 acres land to Adani Enterprises is for setting up a data center, a business park, skills university and recreation center, with an estimated investment of Rs 14,634 crore and committed employment of 24,990 jobs,” Information and Public Relations Minister Perni Venkatramiah told reporters after the cabinet meeting on Thursday.
In a controversial move, the cabinet has also approved 15 acres at Kottavalasa near Vishakhapatnam for the Sri Sarada Peetham, a mutt run by Swaroopananda Saraswati, said to be Reddy's “spiritual guru”. State endowments minister Vellampalli Srinivas defended the decision dubbing it a propagation of Hindu dharma and establishing a vedic school among other activities.
The Cabinet has also approved amendments to the Cinematography act 1965 and allowed the launch of an online ticket sale platform to be managed by the AP State Film, Television & Theater Development Corporation.
The minister said the Cabinet has authorised the formation of a new Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) Welfare Department to implement welfare schemes for the upper caste poor. The formation of Jain and Sikh Welfare Corporations was also sanctioned.
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(Published 28 October 2021, 14:26 IST)
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