Government is not vindictive: Minister

Reiterating that the federal government is not vindictive, Tourism Minister Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao has accused the TDP for elevating a hue and cry unnecessarily over the “reclaiming of government land” from GITAM deemed to be University.

Addressing the media right here on Saturday, Mr. Srinivasa Rao stated the college was not a charitable organisation.

“It charges exorbitant fee from the students and does not follow the rule of reservation. The government has reclaimed only the encroached extent as per the guidelines,” the Minister stated.

Wondering why the land was not regularised through the TDP time period, the Minister claimed that many TDP leaders too had objected to the establishment’s “illegal land encroachments.”

Accusing the TDP leaders of making hurdles within the path of growth, the Minister stated that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy was attempting to strengthen authorities establishments in contrast to former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu who had labored for the good thing about personal organisations.

Earlier, at a separate press convention, YSRCP Anakapalle MLA Gudivada Amarnath alleged that the TDP was batting for many who had encroached almost 40 acres of presidency land value ₹800 crore within the metropolis.

Refuting the college’s declare that it was not issued prior discover, Mr. Amarnath stated that 5 months in the past, surveyors of the Revenue Department had performed a survey and knowledgeable the college administration that 40 acres of presidency land fell inside the campus compound and that it will be reclaimed.

In the 12 months 2014, when Mr. Naidu was the Chief Minister, the college had utilized for alienation of the land, he stated.

“How can the government consider if someone first encroaches land worth crores of rupees and then applies for regularisation?” he questioned.

‘SIT report soon’

Alleging that massive quantities of cash had been swindled and huge extents of land encroached through the TDP time period, the MLA stated, “The YSRCP, then in the Opposition, had questioned the TDP over the encroachments in Vizag. Had we not mounted pressure, the Dasapalla Hills area in the city would have turned into a concrete jungle by now.”

Under strain from the YSRCP, the TDP authorities was pressured to represent a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the land rip-off. However, it did not make the SIT report public. The YSRCP, after coming to energy, had constituted one other SIT. Its report will probably be out very quickly,” he added.

“Anybody involved in grabbing government land will face similar consequences,” the MLA warned.

Pendurthi MLA Adeep Raj stated, although GITAM was concerned in a number of irregularities, the TDP authorities had not taken any motion, contemplating the household relationship between members of the college administration, Mr. Naidu and TDP chief N. Balakrishna.

Accusing the TDP of politicising the difficulty, he stated the federal government was not concentrating on the opposition leaders.